﻿73° G R O U S. 



neck, and back, marked with tranfverfe bars of red and black : 

 the bread has fome white fpots on it ; and the lower part is of a 

 plain orange-cclour : the belly barred with pale orange and 

 black; the tips of the feathers white : back and fcapulars black j 

 the edges of the feathers mottled with black and pale reddifh 

 brown ; fcapulars tipped with white : the inner webs of the quills 

 dufky ; the exterior mottled with duficy and pale brown : the 

 tail is of a deep ruft-colour, barred with black, tipped with 

 white, and confifts of fixteen feathers *. 

 Place and This bird inhabits, for the molt part, the colder countries ; oiy 



Manners. when met with in the hotter, chufes the elevated regions, where the 

 temperature of the air is bleak and chilling. Under fuch restrictions 

 it is found in various parts of the old continent, from the north 

 of Ruffia to Italy, and feveral parts of the Alps. Found formerly 

 in Ireland and Scotland : in the firft believed now to be extinct ; 

 and in the latter, one being fhot near Invemefs, mentioned as a_ 

 rare inftance f. Lays from eight to fixteen eggs, of a white co- 

 lour,, fpotted with yellow, and bigger than thofe of our hen: 

 thefe are depofited upon mqfs, in fome dry fpot on the ground ; 

 the female alone fitting the whole time of incubation, and hiding 



* We here follow Mr. Pennant. In regard to the male, Briffon allows but fix-- 

 teen feathers alfo. Scbiioenckfield will have but twelve. No doubt but his bird 

 had loft the reft ; but, in turn, he allows eighteen to the female. Hence ic 

 lhould feem moft likely, that eighteen was the number intended by nature for 

 both fexes ; efpecially as I do not recollect any other bird wherein die male and 

 female differ at all in the numbers. Linnesus mentions eighteen feathers in the 

 Faun. Suec. ; but only defcribes the male. 



t Br. Zooh — The laft bird of this kind found in Scotland was in the Cbicbolm's 

 great foreft, in Stratbglofs ; and I am well informed that the neft was placed on 

 a Scotch Pine. 



a the- 



