PIN-TxlILED GROUSE. 
'* It may be proper," concludes Buffon, 
*' in this place, to transcribe what Dr. Shaw 
informs us with respe6t to the Kittawiah, or 
Barbary Hazel Grouse, and which is ail we 
know on the subje61:, that the reader may 
compare it with the Pin-Tailed Grouse, or the 
Pyrennean Hazel Grouse, and judge if they 
are really two individuals of the same species. 
*' The Kittawiah, or African Lagopus," 
says Dr. Shaw, " as we may call it, is another 
bird of the gregarious and granivorous kind, 
which likewise wanteth the hinder toe.. It 
frequenteth the most barren, as the Rhaad 
doth the most fertile, parts of these countries ; 
being, in size and habit of body, like the Dove, 
with short feathered feet, also, as in some other 
birds of that kind. The body is of a livid co- 
lour, spotted with black j the belly blackish ; 
and, on the throat, there is the figure of a half- 
moon, in a beautiful yellow. The tip of each 
featiier of the tail hath a white spot upon it j 
and the middle is long, and pointed, as in the 
Merops. The flesh is of the same colour with 
the Rhaad's ; re . upon the breast, and white 
in the legs: agreeing,, fartlier, in being not 
only 
