Tloe Hiflory ^ANIMALS, 489 
are covered with a fine white plumage : the claws are very long, and of a lead 
colour. 
This is a native of many of the northern parts of Europe, but we have it not in 
England ; it lives principally on the tops of mountains, covered with fnow. All the 
writers on birds have described it under the names of Lagopus and Perdix alba. 
Tetrao cauda cinerea , punElis et fafcia nigra variegata, 
The Tetrao^ with a grey tail fpotted\ and fafciated with 
black . 
This is of the fize of a moderately grown pullet: the head is large and well-feathered, 
except over the eyes, where there is a naked ipace of a ftrong fcarlet in the male, and 
of a fiefh colour in the female : the eyes are large and bright; the beak is about half 
an inch in length, black, gibbous, and fomewhat hooked and pointed. The male 
and female differ greatly in colour: in the male, the head and neck are grey, varie¬ 
gated with tranfverfe lines of brown : the throat is black, and the under part of the 
head has a white ftreak, on each fide : the wings are of a dufky ferrugineous colour, va¬ 
riegated with fpots of black ; the back is of a deep grey, fpotted alfo in the fame man¬ 
ner with black; the bread; and belly are white, with large cordated fpots of a ferru- 
gineous brown. 
In the female, the back is of a whitifh-grey, with longitudinal fpots of black, and 
the reft of the body has, for it’s ground colour, a very pale grey, variegated with fpots 
of brown and black ; the wings are not long j the tail is compoied of fixteen feathers, 
tranfverfely ftreaked with black and grey, and all of them, except the two middle 
ones, marked with a black fafcia toward the extremity. 
The legs are robuft and fhort, and are feathered on the anterior part above half 
way down to the feet. 
It is frequent in many parts of Europe, but not in England; it lives in thick 
woods, and feeds on the catkins of the hazel, and other trees, and on other vegetable 
fubftances. All the writers on birds have defcribed it, and they have have all called it 
Gallina Corylorum. 
!Tetrao cauda cinerea fuperiore medietate rufo 
variegata . 
The Tetrao , with a grey tail variegated in the 
upper part with brown . 
This is of the blgnefs of a large tame pigeon : the head is fmall; the ears are patu¬ 
lous ; the eyes are large, and very bright, and their iris is red: the beak alfo is of a 
bright red, and is of the fhape of that of the common hen $ it is robuft, hooked, 
and fharp. 
The head, as alfo the back, rump, and neck are grey, only that there is a tinge of 
a deep claret colour toward the bottom of the neck : the lower part of the head is 
white, and there is fome white alfo about the bafe of the lower chap of the beak $ 
over this white there runs a kind of ring of black: the breaft is of a tawny colour, 
with a tinge of reddifh ; the lides are elegantly variegated with a changeable admix¬ 
ture of black, grey, yellowifh, and red : the wings are not long or large, in propor¬ 
tion to the bulk of the bird; the long feathers are twenty-five in each s the tail is 
about a hand’s breadth long, and the two middle feathers are often entirely grey ; the 
others are variegated toward their upper part with brown : the legs are of a fine bright 
red. 
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