CHAPTEE VIII. 
THE HAZEL GROUSE 
(Tetrao bonasia). 
“ Wie sah icli’s streichen nah und fern 
Hier auf die Baume gern, 
An Scblucht und Hob’, am Felsenrande, 
In seinem bunten Schmuckgewancle 
Mit seinem zarten, weichen Fleisch, 
Das ich zuriick zur Waldung keisch !— 
0, wie vermiss ich nun sein Schweifen 
Mit seinem Yolk, sein trautes Pfeifen, 
Das mir so pflegte woblzutbun ! 
Wo blieb mein sckones Haselhuhn?” 
Welckek. 
The Hazel Grouse is one of those European birds 
which are becoming rarer, with each succeeding year, in 
those localities where it used formerly to be plentiful; 
in some, indeed, it will soon be extinct. This bird is 
allied both to the magnificent Capercaillie and the Black 
Cock, differing from both in one point, however, and that 
is, that the plumage of the male is somewhat similar to 
that of the female: it is bright, though in the highest 
degree delicate. The principal colours are brown, rufous 
red, ash gray, reddish gray, white and black; these are 
intermingled in the most varied and intricate manner 
possible, so that it is only here and there that one tint is 
especially predominant. This motley dress is excellently 
adapted so as to hide the bird from observation, for at a 
