tlYBRID GIIOUS. 



tied with darker : the tips of all the feathers fer- 

 ruginous, but pale." 



The inhabitants of the places where this species 

 is found preserve them through the winter by 

 freezing them, and when wanted they are thrown 

 into cold water for a time. The female lays five 

 eggs. 



B. Cauda bifurcd, 

 B. Tail bifurcated. 



HYBRID GROUa. 



(Tetrao medius.) 



Te. collo pectore cerviceque nigricante-vidlaceiSf purpureO'Tiiten- 

 tibus ; corpore nigricante, sup7'a punctis ruhescentis adsperso; 

 subtus maculis albis vario ; caudd nigra subbifurca. 



Grous with the neck^ breast^ and cervix, dusky violet, glossed 

 with purple j the body dusky, its upper part freckled with 

 reddish spots, and its under varied with white spots j tail 

 black, slightly bifurcated. 



Tetrao medius. Temm. Gall. Ind. QgS,--^Meyer. BerL Mag, 



Tetrao hybridus. Linn. Faun. Suec. 201. — Sparr, Mus. Carls 

 1. pi 15. 



Tetrao Tetrix, var. ^. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 636. 3. — Gmel, Syst, 



Mat, 1.748. — Nilss. Orn. Suec. 302. 

 Urogallus minor punctatus. Briss. Orn, 1. 19I.2. a. 

 Tetras rakkelham. Temm, Pig, et Gall, 3. 129. pi, g.f- 3.— 



Temm. Man. d^Ornith, 287. 

 Hybrid, or Spurious Grous. Penn. Arct, ZooL 2. 314. b. — Penn. 



Arct, Zool. Sup. 62,— Lath, Gen, Syn. 4. 73^,-^Lath. Syn, 



Sup. 214.— Peww. Brit, Zool. 1. 26S.— Mont. Orn. Diet. I. 



