280 BLACK GROUS, 



Urogallus minor. Rail. Sj/n. p. 53. a. 2. — Will. Orn.p. I24. pl. 



31. — Briss. Orn. 1. p. IS6. 2. 

 Le Coq de Bruyeres a queue fourchue. Buf. Ois. 2. 210. pi. 6. 



—Buff. Pi. Enl. 172, 173. 

 Tetras Birckhan. Temjn. Pig. et Gall. 3. p. 140. pi. 9' f- 4. 



(beak.) — Temm. Man. (TOrni. p^ 289. 

 Black GrouSj Black Cock, or Black Game. Fenn. Brit. Zool. 1. 



93. pL 42. — Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 314. c. — Alh. Birds, l.pl. 22. 



— Lath. Gen. Syn.A. 733. — Lath. Syn. Sup. p. 213. — Levoin. 



Brit. Birds. 4. pi. 133. — Pult. Cat. Dors. p. 7. — Wale. Syn. 2. 



pi. 181. — Don. Brit. Birds. 4. pi. 97. — Mont. Orn. Diet. 1. — 



Mont. Orn. Diet. Sup.—Beuo. Brit. Birds. 1. 298.'-'Bing. 



Anim. Biog. 2. 253. — Low^s Faun. Oread, p. 51. 

 Var. /3. Corpore nigra alboque mriegato, macula pectorali maxima 



atro yiitente. 



With the body variegated with black and white ; a dark shining 



spot on the breast. 

 Tetrao Tetrix. Mas. var. Sparr. Mus. Carls. Jasc. 3. pi. 65, — 



Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 636. 3. ^.—Temrn. Gall. Ind. 701. (a.) 

 Var. y. sordide albo ae obsolete Jerrugineo undulata, rnstro nigro, 



pedibus Jerrugineis. 

 Dull white, obsoletely undulated with ferruginous ; the beak 



black, and feet ferruginous. 

 Tetrao Tetrix. femina. var. Sparr. Mus. Carls, f. 3. pi. 66. — • 



Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 636. 3. (7.) — Temm. Gall. Ind. 701. (b.) 



The male of this species is two feet in length : 

 the prevailing colour of liis plumage is black : the 

 head, the neck, the back, and the rump, having 

 rich reflections of blue : the rest of the body and 

 the tail being dull black : the wing-coverts are 

 dusky brown j the first four quills black, the rest 

 white at the bottom ; the lower half and tips of 

 the secondaries white : under wing-coverts white : 

 bend of the wing the same : the feathers of the 

 lower part of the belly and the vent are dusky. 



