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The Blick Coths Fed on ithe buds and the 
catkins, (or blofloms of birch- trees,) and on 
thofe of the Siberian poplar, which give a fine 
flavour to their fiefh. They are fond of whortle- 
berries, bilberries, and the tops of heaths and 
feed their young with gnats. ‘Peas and cherries 
are fatal to them’; and it is faid that the hen, 
~whilft the is laying, lofes the fenfe of fmelling. 
The female weighs but two. pounds, her tail — 
is fhort, and sey for ked, and her colours lefs 
Bit hae es 
The wings of the Black Cock are hort, re it 
flies heavily. : : | 
~ ‘The openings of the ears are etands 
They often pafs two months in the winter un- 
der the’ fuow, fome fay without eating, ‘and Ina 
torpid flate, like ‘bats and Wormice ; vothers fay, 
that they form walks beneath the haw. 5 
‘In‘breeding time the males aflerble together 
ina morning, fometimes to the number of one 
hundred, i inahigh fituation, retired, and thelter- 
€d'with broom or heath; there they fight furi- 
__ oufly : the ‘conquerots then perched ‘on a tree, 
. with f{parkl ing ‘eyes, their cheeks {welled, their 
feathers: briftling; ahd flapping their winess crow. 
to’ the’ feaialea? who immediat ely” ane and 
_ come towards them 
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