4 $ 8 The Hiftory s/ANIMALS. 
ears are patulous: the beak is three quarters of an inch long, and of a pale colour, 
robuft, fomewhat hooked, and pointed at the extremity 5 the fcarlet protuberance over 
the eyes is very bright and beautiful 
The male and female differ greatly : the male, excepting for the little variegation of 
white in his wings, is totally black, but there is a fine changeable tinge of a deep blue 
thrown over the feathers of the neck, and in fome degree over thofe alfo of the back : 
the female is brown and mottled, and not a little refembles the woodcock in colour; 
but in her, as well as in the male, there is a great deal of white difcovered, when the 
wings are expanded : the principal feathers in thefe are twenty-fix to each; they are 
robuft, but the whole wing is not long or large, in proportion to the bulk of the bird. 
The tail confifts of fixteen feathers, and is forked, the exterior ones being greatly 
longer than the interior : the long feathers in the male turn back, but in the female 
they are ftraight. 
This is a native of England, but is not very frequent; it lives on large mountainous 
heaths. The male and female in the former fpecies, as well as in this, are fo dif¬ 
ferent, that they have been defcribed by Gefner and others as feparate birds. All the 
writers on birds have named this. Gefner calls it Urogallus minor, and Grygallus mi¬ 
nor ; others, Tetrao, five Urogallus minor. 
Tetrao cauda hifurca fubtm albo pun&ata. 
The Tetrao , with a forked tail^fpotted with 
white underneath . 
This is as big as our large Darking fowl; and the male and female differ fo ex- 
treamly, that they may eafily be miftaken for diftindt fpecies: the female is grey, va¬ 
riegated with tranfverfe lines of black, and the tail is moderately long, forked, and 
the outer feathers ftraight: the male is throughout of a very deep iron-grey, without 
any variegation, except that his head and neck have a beautiful tinge of a changeable 
blue thrown over them: the head is large, and the beak very robuft and black, fome¬ 
what gibbous on the upper part, and pointed at the end : the eyes are large ; their iris 
is hazel, and the fcarlet eye-brows are very bright and beautiful: the legs are very ro¬ 
buft, but fliort; and the tail in the male has the long exterior feathers turned back or 
curled. 
This is a native in England, but very rare. I did not know it was at all found 
here, till I killed two brace on Hindhead, a vaft mountainous heath in the Portfmouth 
road. The writers on birds have not mentioned it; they either have not feen it, or 
have confounded it with the others; only Linnsus fays fomething of it, from the ac¬ 
count of one Leech. 
Tetrao reclricibus albis , intermediis nigris , apice albis. *%l)t 
The Tetrao , with the tail feathers white> or tipped with white. gOpUS* 
This is of the fize of our largeft tame pigeon : the head is large; the ears are 
patulous; the eyes are bright, and their iris is of a hazel colour, and over them there 
is a naked fpace by way of eye-brow, of a fine fcarlet colour, and granulated figure : 
the beak is very fhort and black; it is gibbous on the upper part, hooked at the ex¬ 
tremity, and very fharp-pointed. 
The whole bird, excepting only the tail, is as white as fnow, only that in the male 
there is a longitudinal ftreak of black on the head, which diftinguifhes it from the fe¬ 
male: the wings are moderately long, and there are twenty-fix of the principal fea¬ 
thers in each : the tail is four inches, or more, in length, and is compoled of fixteen 
feathers, which are in general white, but fome of them are black toward the bafe, 
and only white at the extremity : the legs, and even the toes, down to the very claws, 
are 
