

48 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
of the body and) wings brown, with blackifh 
lines ; the breaft a glofly blackifh green. The 
tail has eighteen feathers, marked on each fide 
with afew fpots of white. m 
It inhabits Germany, France, the Alps, and 
‘moft of the woody and marfhy parts of ene) 
Afia, and of America. 
~The Wood Grous is as large as a {mall Tur- — 
key; the wings, when extended, are four feet 
acrofs, and it weighs from ten to twelve pounds. 
In England it is very fearce, in mild countries 
it inhabits woods, in high fituations; incolder_ . 
climates it frequents thofe that are more 
fheltered. 
Dheiee gras feratch the ground like Poultry, 
and their gizzards contain many little ftones; 
when they feed chiefly upon juniper berries, their 
flefh has a peculiar Se rather bitter and un- 
pleafant, 
‘They feed upon a great variety of vegetables, 
upon the leaves and buds of pines, junipers, cee 
dars, willows, birch, white poplar, hazle, bram= 
bles, thiftles, the leaves and bloffoms of F rench. 
wheat, vetches, millfoil, dandelion, clover, &c, 
efpecially whilft they are tender, for when the — 
— ii to ie they eat the leaves. They - 
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