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niper tops, in fummer on goofe-berries, rafp- 
berries, currants, cranberries, &c. They are 
not migratory, (laying all the year at Moofe 
Fort ; they build their nefts on dry ground, 
hatch nine young at a time, to which the 
mother clucks, as our common hen does j 
and on the lead appearance of danger, or in 
order to enjoy a comfortable degree of warmth, 
the young ones retire under the wings of their 
parent. 
N. B. A fpecimen, which is fuppofed to be 
either a young bird or a female, wants the 
blueifh black (houlder-knot ; but it is the 
fame in all other refpe&s. 
Tetrag, i 8 . Phafianellus. Linn. Syft. Nat. Ed. 
X. p< 160. n. 5. Edw. t 1 7. Longtailed Grous. 
Faun. Am. Septentr. 10. 
Severn River, N° 6 and 7. Albany Fort, N° 3. 
This bird, which Mr. Edwards has drawn plate 
1 17, was by Linneus in the tenth edition of 
his Syflem, ranged as a new fpecies of grous 
or tetrao, by the fpecific name of Phafianel- 
lus (alluding to the name of Pheafant which 
it bears atHudfon’s Bay, and likewife to its 
pointed tail). He afterwards in the new or 
twelfth edition of the Syflem, p. 273. makes 
it a variety of the great Cock of the Wood, 
or Tetrao Urogallus, probably from the ac- 
count in Mr. Edwards, that the male (Iruts 
very upright, is in general of a darker colour 
than the female, and has a glofiv neck. Thefe 
drcumftances, however,e are not fufficient to 
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