Species of grouse, possibly black grouse, Lyrurus tetrix, Tetrao tetrix, female. De Avibus. Fasan negro, fasiano alpestre, gallo alpestre. Woodcut engraving after an illustration by Lucas Schan and Conrad Gessner from Conrad Gessner’s Historiae Animalium, De avium natura, (Natural history of animals: birds), Frankfurt, Wechel for Cambier, 1585.

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