RUFFED HEATHCOCK. 
The Ruffed Heathcock is a very fine bird, 
almost of a middle size, between the Pheasant 
and the Partridge. It is the Tetrao Togatiis, 
of LlnnsEus ; and the Bonasa Major Cana^ 
densis, of Brisson. Bufton describes it under 
the names of the Ruffed Heathcock, or Large 
Hazel Grouse of Canada- and Latham has 
given it the very singular appellation of the 
Shoulder-knot Grouse. In America, it is 
usually called the Pheasant ; but, in some parts, 
the Moor Hen. We have adopted the name, 
with the exquisite figure, of Edwards* 
The bill," says that able naturalist, " is 
made like a Hen^s, and of a brownish horn- 
colour; the feathers bend forw^ard over the 
nostrils, and cover them : the feathers on. the 
crown are.pretty long j and, I believCj it raises 
them into a crest, or lets them fall, at pleasure. 
It has, also, long feathers on the neck, which, 
it can raise in form of a Ruff, or let th^. 
fall flat; for which reason, I have distinguished 
it 
