WOOD GROUS. 



Grous with the neck and body above dusky, transversely waved 

 with cinereous ; beneath dusky, varied with white spots 3 the 

 axillae white 3 the breast green, glossed with brassy j the tail 

 black and rounded, its feathers with two white spots towards 

 the tip. {Female less, transversely variegated with black and 

 ash-colour ; the throat, breast, and tail-feathers rufous, the 

 latter barred with black.) 



Tetrao Urogallus. Linn, Syst. Nat. 1. 273. 1. — Linn, Faun. 

 Suec. 200. — GmeL Syst. Nat. 1. y\Q.— Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 634. 

 1. — Temm. Gall. Lid. 696. — Nilss. Orn. Suec. 1. 297. 



Urogallus niajor. Briss. Orn. 1. 182. — Raii. Syn. 53. a. 1. 



Coq de Bruyere, ou Tetras. Buff. Ois. 2. I91. pi. 5. — Buff. PL 

 EnL 73 and 74. 



Tetras Auerhan. Temm, Pig. et Gall. 3. 114. g. f, 1. 2. 



beak, &c. — Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 

 Cock of the Wood, or Mountain. Albin. Birds, 2. j^;^. 29 



and 30. 



Wood Grous. Fenn. Brit. Zool. 1. 92. pi. 40, 41. — Penn. Arct. 



ZooL 2.312,— Supp, 62.— Lath. Gen. Syn, 4. 729. 1.— Letu. 



Brit. Birds. 4. 132. — Wale. Syn. 2. pi. 180. — Don. Brit. Birds. 



4. pi. Sg.—Bexv. Brit. Birds. 1. 295. — Mont. Orn. Diet. 1. — 



Mont. Orn. Diet. Supp. 

 Var. jS. Dorsum anticum album maeulis Jerrugiueis , Jusco tenuis- 



sime undulatis ; postieum nigrum pennis albis insertis ; abdomen 



et eauda maeulis albis ; tibice sordide alba. Mas. 

 With the anterior part of the back white, with ferruginous 



spots, slightly undulated with brown j the posterior portion 



black, varied with white j abdomen and tail with white spots 3 



tibiae dull white. Male. 

 Tetrao Urogallus, var. a. Nilss. Orn. Suec, 1. 299. 

 Var. y. cinereo-canus, capite colloque saturatioribus. Mas. 

 Hoary-grey, with the head and neck darker. Male. 

 Tetrao Urogallus. var. jS. Nilss. Orn. Suec. 1. 299. 

 Var. ^. supra sordide testacea undulis rarioribus albis, subtus 



testaceo albidoque undulata. 

 Above dull testaceous, with few white undulations 3 beneath 



undulated with testaceous and white. 

 Tetrao Urogallus. var. y. Nilss. Orn, Suec, 1. 299. 

 Var. £. Tot a sordida albida,Juscescenti nebulo§a„ 



