LONG-TAILED GROUSE, 
With our figure of the Long-Tailed Grouse, 
which is copied from Edwards, we shall give 
the account published at the same time by that 
ceiebrated-prnithologist,; and, also, what has 
since occurred to .other naturalists, relative to 
this bird. 
It is,^' says Edwards, of the bigness of 
a pheasant; or, rather, of the Black Game, 
called the Heathcock or Grouse with us, of 
which genus it is a species. This, I was in- 
formed, was a Hen : the Cock, my author 
tells me, is of a blacker colour, and glossy on 
the neck. There is the same diiFerence be- 
tween the Cocks and Hens in our Heath 
Game, 
It has the bill, like that of a domestic 
Hen, of a black or dusky colour. The head 
and neck are of a bright reddish brown, va- 
riegated with transverse waved dusky lines. 
Above, and beneath, each eye, and on the 
mi^QV side of the head, the feathers are of a 
light 
