. The game birds and wild fowl of Sweden and Norway; with an account of the seals and salt-water fishes of those countries .. . tlie Bhick-Cock.—-Combative Propensities.—Ci-oss Breeding.—In Confinement. ^^HERE was a fair sprinkling of Black-Cock, or Black--*- Grouse {On^e, Sav.; Aarfnyl, Norw.; Tetrao Ferdrix,Linn.), near to Ronnum, both in the forest and on theopen moorlands. This bird has a wide geographical range, extendingfrom Scandinavia, Russia, and Siberia, in the north, to thesouthern slopes of the Pyrenees in the south, and isuuicli more generally distributed over Central Europe—Avhcr
. The game birds and wild fowl of Sweden and Norway; with an account of the seals and salt-water fishes of those countries .. . tlie Bhick-Cock.—-Combative Propensities.—Ci-oss Breeding.—In Confinement. ^^HERE was a fair sprinkling of Black-Cock, or Black--*- Grouse {On^e, Sav.; Aarfnyl, Norw.; Tetrao Ferdrix,Linn.), near to Ronnum, both in the forest and on theopen moorlands. This bird has a wide geographical range, extendingfrom Scandinavia, Russia, and Siberia, in the north, to thesouthern slopes of the Pyrenees in the south, and isuuicli more generally distributed over Central Europe—Avhcre it inhabits both mountainous and marshy countries—than the Capercali, being found, locally, in Germany,Prance, Holland, and the British Isles. As regards the Scandinavian Peninsula, the Black-Cock is much more al)undant, and more widely spread,than the Capercali. In almost all places, indeed, wherethere are woods or moorlands, it is found. Its northernlimits, however, are not so extended as those of theCapercali; Init it certainly goes as high up as Muonio-niska, in La])land, about the 68^; for though I myself. ■v^ a THE BLACK-COCK AND GREY-HEN. 7!? (lid not sec it there, I learned that it occasionally visitedthat part of the country. It is scarce in Denmark, andis there confined to certain districts. The Black-Cock is too well known to require a minutedescrijition. It may, therefore, he sufficient to say thatthe male and the female, as seen in the accompanyingdrawing, differ widely in plumage; that of the male, asthe name denotes, being black, whilst the female, onthe contrary, is dark brown, whence her designationwith us of Grey-Hen. The male is also very muchlarger than the female. The idea is very generally entertained in the morenorthern parts of Norway, that there is a second kind ofBlack-Cock, grey in colour, and less in size than the com-mon Black-Cock, and which is there called the HaJf-Orre,or half Black-Cock. It is further said that this bird isnot unfr
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