BIRDS, GALLING. 73. Tetrao. 45t 
culi;ii to Guinea: have a longer bill, blunt at tl« tip, the 
noilrils placed in the middle ; very large ; chin covered 
with a few feathers ; tail verv ihvort ^ back-toe Ihort, iifelefa 
ifi running ; claws concave beneath ; the female larger than 
the male : ^uaiLs have a longer bill than partridges. 
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A. Spot (yver the eyes naked : legs downy- Grous. 
a. feet \-toed. 
Tail rounded ; arn;ipits ■vyhite, H'ood ff. 
Inhabits mountainous and woody parts of Europe and Noriher* 
■ 4 fia ; 2 feet 9 inches long ; feeds on juniper berries and the 
lee<ii and toj>s of pines ; is folitary except in breeding time, 
H-hcn it 'is V^ery Inatteinive, to its fafety and ealily taken ; fits 
on the tops of trees and calls the female with a loud, ilinll 
Voice ; fetoale lays 8: — 16 white eggs, fpotted with yellow, on 
the dry ground ; iieflr eatable. 
Eiil horn-colour; fpot above the eyes fcarle^; iride hazel ; 
nofiriU covered with fhort feathers ; feathers of the thin 
hlack, longer ; head and neck cinereous, with fine tranCverfe 
hlack lines ; body above bay, with blackiflt lines ; hreaf 
blackifh-grecn ; belly and vent black, \'aried with white ; 
tail-feathers 18, each tide fpotted with whi^c ; legs robull, 
brown, the toes poftinate at the edge. 
Eemale 26 inches long ; bill dufky ; chin red ; body al»vc uitb 
alternate red and black tranfvcrfe lines ; breaft with a few 
■white fpots, the lower part orapge ; belly fppitixl with pale 
orange and hlack, the feathers tipt with white ; Jhoulders 
black, the feathers edged with black, and pale tawny, and 
ript with white ; tail rufty, barred with black and tipt with 
white. 
Tail Wedged ; head^ neck and body above teftaccous, 
barred with black. Long-tailed G. 
Inhabits Hudfon's Bay and the uncultivated parts of Virginia >- 
17 inches long; feeds in winter on the buds of beech and 
larch, in fummer on various berries ; fiefli brownifli. 
Between the bill and eyes a white fpot ; fidcs of the neck and 
soing-coverts with round, white fpots; lateral tail-feathers 
’ipt with white, the 2 middle ones much longer and marked 
With ocellate fpots. 
^iale with the bre*ll chefnut-brown. 
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*Tetri.x. 
