200 TETRAO PHASIANELLUS. 
the female from a badly stuffed specimen, being', 
ever, the only figure before ours ; Pennant ; Ifo^'L' 
who has given the most information concerning ' 
habits, derived from personal observation; and Fn r . j 
who has described it with accuracy. Linne at 1,1 
adopted it from Edwards, but afterwards most ' 1I)J f 
countably changed his mind, and considered it iis . l# 
female of the European cock of the woods. It 
restored by Latham and others to its proper rank 
the scale of beings. 
The sharp-tailed grouse is remarkably shy, 
solitary, or by pairs, during summer, and not associs*'! J 
in packs till autumn; remaining thus throughout 'L 
winter. Whilst the ruffed grouse is never found bn 1 ,,, 
woods, and the pinnated grouse only in plains, „ 
present frequents either indifferently. They, ho"' 1 ". 1 ^ 
of choice, inhabit what are called" the juniper pi® 1 
keeping among the small juniper bushes, the k 1 ' , 
constituting their principal food. They are U9» ; V, 
seen on the ground, but when disturbed, fly to ^ 
highest trees. Their food in summer is composed ; 
berries, the various sorts of which they eagerly 
in winter they are confined to the buds and top s f 
evergreens, or of birch and alder, but especially poi’y 
of which they are very fond. They are more 
approached in autumn than when they inhabit k r h 
forests, as they then keep alighting on the tops of tv 
tallest poplars, beyond the reach of an ordinary g!V, 
When disturbed in that position, they are apt to b ‘ l 
themselves in the snow; but Hearne informs us, tlN „ 
the hunter’s chance is not the better for that; for * 
rapidly do they make their way beneath the surly, 
that they often suddenly take wing several yard- ffo ^ 
the spot where they entered, and almost always 111 
different direction from that which is expected. 
Like the rest of its kind, the sharp-tailed grey 
breeds on the ground near some bush, making a foP |f , 
nest with grass, and lining it with feathers. Here , ((J 
female lays from nine to thirteen eggs, which are 
spotted with blackish. The young are hatched a^o 
