LONG-TAILED GROUSE. 
and. unfrequented parts of Virginia ; and, that 
the Cock is a stately bird, walking very 
frect." 
It is to be rememberedj that Edwards pub- 
lished the above account in the year 1750; 
that being the date of the third volume, or part, 
of his Natural HisLory of Birds, from which it 
is extracted. 
In theLinnsean catalogue of subjects figured 
and described by Edwards, this bird is srmply 
denominated Tetrao : but, on farther reflec- 
tion, it has since been called, in the Systems 
Naturae of Linnaeus, with more precision, Te- 
trao Phasianellus. It is the Sharp-Tailed 
Grouse, of Pennant ; and the Long-Tailed 
Hazel Grouse, of BufFon. 
*' This American bird," says BufFoUj 
** which may be called the Long-Tailed Ha- 
zel Grouse, has been designed and described, 
by Edwards, under the name of the Hudson's 
Bay Heathcock, or Grouse; but appeals, to me, 
more related to the Hazel Grouse'. The indi- 
vidual represented in Edwards, is a Female ; 
with 
