Clafs II.] 
BIRDS. 
SPECIES II. The Black Cock. Plate Mi- 
Its Female. Plate M. 2. 
Heath-cock, black game, or grous. 
JVil. orn. 173. 
Ran Jyn. av. 5 3. 
Urogallus minor . (the male.) Gefner 
av. 493. 
G If 1HESE birds, like the former, are 
fond of wooded and mountanous fitu- 
ations ; they feed on bilberries, and 
other mountain fruits j and in the winter on the 
tops of the heath. They are often found in 
woods; this and the preceding fpecies perching 
like the pheafant; in the fummer they frequently 
deicend from the hills to feed on corn: they ne¬ 
ver pair; but in the fpring the male gets upon 
fome eminence, crows and claps his wings* ; on 
which fignal all the females within hearing refort 
to him : the hen lays feldom more than fix or fe- 
ven eggs. The young males quit their mother in 
the beginning of winter; and keep in flocks of 
feven or eight till fpring , during that time they 
inhabit the woods : they are very quarrelfbme, 
* The ruffed Heathcock of America , a bird of this genus, does the 
fame. Edw. Gl. p. 80. 
BriJJon av. I. 186. 
Grygallus minor (the female.) Gef¬ 
ner av. 496. 
Tetrao tetrix. Lin. fyft. 15 9. 
and will fight together like game cocks , and at 
that time are fo inattentive to their own fafety, 
that it has often happened that two or three have 
been killed at one {hot. 
An old black cock will weigh near four pounds ; 
its length is one foot ten inches 5 its breadth two 
feet nine: the hen weighs little more than two 
pounds y its length one foot fix inches; its 
breadth two feet fix : the tail of this fpecies is 
forked , that of the male greatly fo; that of the 
female in a lefs degree : the legs of this and the 
preceding kind are feathered only to the feet : 
they both inhabit woods in the winter j therefore 
nature hath not given them the fame kind pro- 
te&ion againfl the cold, as fhe has the grous and 
ptarmigan, who muff undergo all the rigor of the 
feafon beneath the fnow, or on the bare ground. 
SPECIES III. The Grous. Plate M 3. The Male. 
Red game, Gorcock, or Moor-cock, 
JVil. orn . 177. 
RaiiJyn. av. 54 , 
T H E male weighed nineteen ounces : 
its length was fifteen inches and a half; 
the breadth twenty-fix: the female 
weighed only fixteen ounces ; the colors of the 
latter differ in fome particulars from thofe of the 
male, being in general paler and duller : the fear- 
let fkin above the eye is lefs prominent, and not 
Moor-cock, or Moor-fowl. Sib. foot. 
16. 
Attagen. Rrijfon av. I. 209. 
fringed; the black fpots on the back are not fo 
large, or confpicuous : the breaft and belly are 
fpotted with white , the tips of fome of the co¬ 
verts and fecondary feathers of the wings are 
white ; the under coverts in both fexes are white 
mixed with a few dufky feathers ; the baftard 
wings in both male and female are black. 
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