TETRAO SCOTICUS. 
RED G R O U S. 
^ Generic Character. ^^^^ Tetrao urogallus. 
Synonyms. 
Tetrao Scoticus. Ind. Om 2.p, 641. 15. 
Red Game. Alhin's Birds ^ 1. /^x^. 23, 24. 
Red Grous. Br. ZooL 1. 94. tab. 43. Ib.foL 85. iah 
M. 3. Lath, Syn. 4. 746. 13. 
Ih.fupi. p. 216. Mont. Orn. Di5i. 
Vol 1. Bewick's Br. Birds^ Ft. 1. 
p. 299. 
Length of this fpedes fifteen, breadth twenty-three 
Inches ; weight from one pound four to fix ounces. Bill fhort 
and blunt ; irides reddifh hazel, over the eye is a bare fringed 
membrane of a bright fcarlet colour ; legs covered with hair- 
like feathers to the extremity of the toes ; claws broad and 
concave j tail compofed of fixteen feathers. 
The female is rather lefs, and is lighter coloured than the 
male. 
Red Grous feem confined to the extenfive moors in the 
north of England, and to the mountains of Scotland, Ireland, 
snd Wales ; the fpecies is indigenous to Great-Britain, and 
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