. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization. Animals. 228 AVES. In the only well-known species (CV. coronatus, Teni.), the male has a long crest of thinly-barbed rufous feathers, and some long barbless stems over each eyebrow. Plumage bright green and blue. [Another (Cr. niger), is wholly black, with the female brown. Thei-e are two or three more, all from India and its islands]. The Grouse {Tetrao, Lin.)— Form another great genus, cliaracterized by a naked space, generally of a bright red colour, in place of an eye-brow. It is subdivided in the following manner. The Kes
. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization. Animals. 228 AVES. In the only well-known species (CV. coronatus, Teni.), the male has a long crest of thinly-barbed rufous feathers, and some long barbless stems over each eyebrow. Plumage bright green and blue. [Another (Cr. niger), is wholly black, with the female brown. Thei-e are two or three more, all from India and its islands]. The Grouse {Tetrao, Lin.)— Form another great genus, cliaracterized by a naked space, generally of a bright red colour, in place of an eye-brow. It is subdivided in the following manner. The Kestricted Grouse {Tetrao, Latham)— Have feathered tarsi without spurs. Those to which we more particularly confine the name have a rounded or forked tail, and naked toes. [They are polygamous, and spread the tail and strut in the manner of Turkeys]. The Bearded or Wood Grouse, Capercailzie, or Cock of the "Wood (T. urogallus, Lin.), is the largest of the true Poultry, surpassing the Turkey in size. Its plumage is slate-coloured, finely rayed with blackish, [the breast shining bottle-green] ; female fulvous, barred with brown or blackish. It inhabits the extensive mountain forests of the north of Europe, nestles in the heather or newly-cleared grounds, and subsists on buds and berries, [and particularly pine-shoots]. Its flesh is excellent, and the trachea makes two curves before entering the limgs. The Black Grouse (T. tefrix, Lin).—Black, with some white on the wing-coverts and beneath the tail, the two outermost feathers of which are forked and curled outward. Female fulvous, barbed with whitish and dusky black. Their size that of the Domestic Cock and Hen. Found also in the European mountain forests. [There is a nearly allied species in Siberia]. An intermediate species appears to exist in the north of Europe (T. intermedius, Langsdorf). [It is still very doubtful whether this be not a hybrid between the Bearded and Black Grouse. Several more exist in North America
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