
OF BIRDS. 
The female lays from twelve to fifteen. or 
twenty eggs, about the fize of a Pigeon’s, upon 
the ground, at the foot of a hazel-tree, or great. 
mountain fern, and fits three weeks. It is faid 
too (but it feems very extraordinary) that feldom — 
-more than feven or eight chickens, or young 
ones, are hatched. As foon as they are able to 
procure their own food, their parents drive them 
away, always referving a certain diftrict for them- 
felves. 
_. When. they are difturbed they fly into trees,, 
aa perch upon the low branches near the 
body; there they will wait very patiently for a 
long time; but the fowlers concealing themfelves, 
and imitating the voice of thefe birds by a pipe, - 
_ often. draw them into their nets, or fome other 
fares 
Their flefh is efteemed a great delicacy. 
There are feveral other fpecies of Grous with: 
feathered legs. 
In one the male has a black. ye between the 
bill and the eye, which. in the female is fcarcely 
feen. hefe are found in the northern parts of 
Europe, in woods and marfhy lands. They 
change their feathers at the approach of winter, — 
Thefe feathers were efteemed very valuable, and 
formerly 
