. British zoology . orange. This bird hatches itsyoung late in the fummer. It lays from fix to eighteggs, of a dull yellowilh white color, marked of very fmall ferruginous fpecks; andtowards the fmaller end with fome blotches of thefame hue. Mixed Befides the common fpecies of black cock, mentions a variety found in Scotland, underthe name of le coq de hruyere piquete, or fpottedblack cock. It differs from the common fort inbeing fpotted on the neck, bread, wings and thighswith red. This I fuppofe to have been a fpuriousbreed between this and the former fpecies, as thel^
. British zoology . orange. This bird hatches itsyoung late in the fummer. It lays from fix to eighteggs, of a dull yellowilh white color, marked of very fmall ferruginous fpecks; andtowards the fmaller end with fome blotches of thefame hue. Mixed Befides the common fpecies of black cock, mentions a variety found in Scotland, underthe name of le coq de hruyere piquete, or fpottedblack cock. It differs from the common fort inbeing fpotted on the neck, bread, wings and thighswith red. This I fuppofe to have been a fpuriousbreed between this and the former fpecies, as thel^etrao Hybridus of Linnd^us is. I could not learnthat this mixed race was found at prefent in NorthBritaifj, perhaps becaufe the cock of the wood isnow become fo very rare. It is alfo found in Swe-defi^ and defcribed by Linn^us in his Faun. Suec,fp. 201. by the title oi Tetrao caudd bifurcd fuhtusalhopun5!ata, m Swedijh^ Racklehane or Roflare: thelegs of this and the preceding kind are feathered only Breed, . JV9^4 PnCAHMIGAlSf. ^ Class II. RED COCK. only to the feet: they both inhabit woods in thewinter; therefore nature hath not given them thefame kind protedion againft the cold, as fhe hasthe groLis and ptarmigan, who mufl undergo all therigor of the feafon beneath the fnow, or on the bareground. 26g Gallma campeftris. Gira^. La Gclinote Hupee. Brzfon topogr, Hibern. 706. an;. I. 209. Hijl, dOys. Red Game, Gorcock, or n. 252. Moor-cock, Wil. om. lyy. La Gelinote dEcoffe, Bonafa Lagopus altera Plinii. ^«// Scotica. Mm 199. iab. zz. fyn. a^-v, 54. f. ,. Hift. dOys. \l. 242. Moor-cock, or Moor-fowl. 6i<$. Br, Zool. 8c. plate M. 7 Scot. 16. ^ ^ * 94 Re rpHE male weighs about nineteen -D— w.^... ounces. A The length is fifteen inches and a half:the breadth twenty-fix. The bill is black: thenoftrils covered with red and black feathers: theirides hazel colored. At the bafe of the lowermandible, on each fide, is a white fpot: the throatis red. The plumage on
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