

43 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
of the body and wings ~brown, with blackith 
lines ; the breaft a glofly blackith green. The 
tail has eighteen feathers, marked on each fide 
with a few {pots of white. sid 
It inhabits Germany, France, the Alps, and 
moft of the woody and marfhy parts of Europe, 
Afia, and of America. 
The Wood Grous is as large as a fall Ture 
key; the wings, when extended, are four fect 
acrofs, and it weighs from ten to twelve pounds, 
In England it is very fcarce, in mild countries - 
it inhabits woods, in high fituations ; in colder 
climates it frequents thofe that are more 
fheltered. 
Theie birds fcratch the ground like Poultry, 
and their gizzards contain many little ftones; 
when they feed chiefly upon juniper berries, their 
Aefh has a peculiar tafte, rather bitter and un- 
pleafant. 
They feed upon a great variety of vegetables, 
upon the leaves and buds of pines, junipers, ce- 
dars, willows, birch, white poplar, hazle, bram- 
bles, thiftles, the leaves and blofloms of French 
wheat, vetches, millfoil, dandelion, clover, &c. 
efpecially whilft they are tender, for when the. 
feeds begin to ripen, they eat the leaves. They 
feed 

