BRITISH BIRDS, 
THE BLACK GROUSE. 
BLACK GAME, OR BLACK COCK. 
(' Tetrao Tetrix, Lin . — Le Coq de Bruyere a queue four- 
chue % Buff.) 
This bird, though not larger than a fowl, 
weighs near four pounds ; its length is about one 
foot ten inches ; breadth two feet nine : The bill 
is black ; the eyes dark blue ; below each eye 
there is a fpot of a dirty white colour, and above a 
larger one, of a bright fcarlet, which extends al- 
moft to the top of the head ; the general colour of 
the plumage is of a deep black, richly glofled with 
blue on the neck and rump; the leffer wing co- 
verts are dulky brown; the greater are white, 
