HAZEL GROUS. 



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they do with great obstinacy, and are frequently 

 so inattentive to their own safety, that it often 

 happens that two or three of them are killed at a 

 shot. 



This bird inhabits the colder countries of Eu- 

 rope and Asia, being abundant in the pine woods 

 of Russia, Siberia, Norway, Sweden, &c. : the 

 Alps and the mountains of Lorrain occasionally 

 furnish a few individuals, particularly the former : 

 it also occurs in various other mountainous parts, 

 where the air is bleak : it was formerly abundant 

 in Scotland (as before mentioned) and Ireland, 

 but appears to be extirpated, at least in the latter 

 place ; in the former it went by the name of Caper- 

 caile, Capercalze, and Auercalze : in Norway it is 

 called Aiierhan. 



Its flesh is greatly esteemed, and numbers of the 

 birds are often sent from the continent during th^e 

 winter to this country, where they arrive in great 

 perfection. 



HAZEL GROUS. 



(Tetrao Bonasia.) 



Tk. corpore supra rufescente maculis fuscis nigris et cinereis 

 varioj subtus cinerascentey tumulis nigris cons2)ersOf maculd 

 utrinque alba pone aures ; rectricibus cinereis punctis nigris 

 fascia nigra, exceptis intermediis duabusj guld nigra, (Femina 

 guld alba,) 



