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has been thought fit for the table of a prince. Is greatly efteemed 

 by the Bohemians about Rafter, when they fend it by way of 

 prefent one to another : reckoned a rarity at Rome formerly, and 

 there kept in cages i are often caught with a bird-call made to 

 imitate their note. 



*- RED GR 



,'3- La. Gelinotted'EcofTe, Brif. orn. i. p. 199_.pl. 22. f. l.'—Buf. olf. ii. p. 242. 



La Gelinote hupie, Brif. orn. i. p. 209. 9. 

 L'Attagas, Buf. oij. ii. p. 252. 

 Red Game, Moorcock, or Gorcock, Raii Syn. p. 54. A. j. — Will. orn. p. 



177. — Mbin. i. pi. 23. 24. 

 Red Grous,. Br. Zool. i. N° 94. pi. 43. — Arft. Zool. 



Lpv, Muf. 



I>:«8cri*tion.. fTpHE male weighs nineteen ounces, and is in length fifteen 

 inches and a half. The bill black ; noftrils covered with 

 red and black feathers : irides haze} : over the eye a naked 

 fringed red membrane : at the bafe of the lower mandible a 

 white fpot : the throat is red,: the head and neck pale tawny red - s 

 each feather marked with feveral bars of black : the back and 

 fcapulars of a deeper red, with a large black fpot on the middle 

 of each feather : breaft and belly dull purpli/h brown, croffed 

 with numerous narrow dufky lines : quills dufky : tail even, con- 

 fiding of fixteen feathers; the four middle ones barred with redj 

 all the others black : legs covered to the claws with foft white 

 feathers : the claws whitifb, broad, and ftrong. 

 .Female. The female is lefs, only weighing fifteen ounces : the colours- 



lefs bright than in. the male, and the naked red part over the eye- 

 lefs confpicuouso. 



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