HAZEL GROUlS. 



Grous with the body above rufescent, varied with brown, black, 

 and cinereous spots ; beneath cinerascent, sprinkled with black 

 lunules ; a white spot on each side near the ears ; the tail- 

 feathers cinereous with black spots, and a black fascia, the 

 two middle feathers excepted ; the throat black. {Female 

 with a white throat.) 



Tetra Bonasia. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 275. 9. — Linn. Faun. Suec. 

 204. — Gmel.Si/st. Nat.l.753.-^Briss.Orn. 1. I9I. 3. — Lath, 

 Ind. Orn.1. 640. 14. — Temm. Gall. Ind. 706. — Nilss.Orn. 

 Suec. 1. 305. 



Tetrao betulinus. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 637. 5. young. — GmeL 



Syst. Nat. 1. 749. 

 Gallina Corylorum. Rail. Syn. p. 55, 6. — Will, Orn. 126. 



pi. 31. 



La Gelinotte. Buf. Ois. 2. 233. pi. y.-^Buff. PI. Enl, 474. 

 475. 



Tetras Gelinotte. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 3. 174. — Temm. Man, 

 d'Orni.lQl. 



Birch Grous. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 735. 5. young. 



Hazel Grous. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 317. f. — Will, (Ang.) p. 



175. 2)1. 31.— Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 744. 

 Var. ^. corpore cano Jusco undulato. 

 With the body hoary, undulated with brown. 

 Tetrao Bonasia. a.. Temm. Gall. Ind. yoy. 

 Tetrao canus. Sparr. Mus. Carls, fasc, 1. 16. — Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1. 753. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 640. 13. 

 Helsingian Grous. Lath. Syn. Sup. p. 21 7. 



This species is fourteen inches in length : the 

 beak is short and black : space round the eyes 

 naked, wrinkled, and deep crimson : the upper 

 parts of the head, neck, and body, are transversely 

 striated with rufous-brown and ash-colour; the 

 lower part of the back and rump inclining more . 

 to the latter colour : the wing-coverts are marbled 

 with rufous, sprinkled with brown and black, and^ 

 a few dashes of white: quills grey-brown; om 



