. An illustrated manual of British birds . ually hatched early in June. The food of the adultsconsists of tender shoots of the Scotch fir (rarely of the spruce),with various berries in summer ; the young eat insects, worms & name Capercaillie is, I believe, derived from the Celtic gabura goat—with allusion to the elongated chin-feathers of the maleand his amorous behaviour in spring—and coille a wood : ^ goatof the wood ; but some authorities prefer cabhar an old man, orgolntr a horse. The adult male has a strong hooked bill \ upper plumage chieflydark slate-grey, nearly black on the
. An illustrated manual of British birds . ually hatched early in June. The food of the adultsconsists of tender shoots of the Scotch fir (rarely of the spruce),with various berries in summer ; the young eat insects, worms & name Capercaillie is, I believe, derived from the Celtic gabura goat—with allusion to the elongated chin-feathers of the maleand his amorous behaviour in spring—and coille a wood : ^ goatof the wood ; but some authorities prefer cabhar an old man, orgolntr a horse. The adult male has a strong hooked bill \ upper plumage chieflydark slate-grey, nearly black on the tail; chest dark glossy-greeu;lower parts almost black ; legs covered with hair-like brown feathers,short in summer, but overhanging the toes in winter. There isgreat variation in size, but the average length of the wing is 16 female is much smaller, and the general colour of her upperplumage is brown mottled with buff and white ; the neck and breastare orange-buff, barred with black and spotted with white. 479. THE BLACK GROUSE. Tetrao tetrix, Linnasus. Birds of this species are generally known collectively as Black-game, and in Devon and Somerset as Heath-poults; the sexes beingdistinguished as the Black-cock and the Grey-hen. They are found,in small numbers and locally, in Cornwall and South Devon, andare tolerably plentiful on Exmoor as well as on the Brendons andthe Quantocks in Somersetshire, while they still maintain themselvesin Dorset, Wilts, and the New Forest district. In Sussex, Surreyand Berkshire their presence is the result of reintroduction early inthe present century, and none are now to be found in Kent, where,however, the species existed in the time of Henry viii. ; and it isin an ordinance for the regulation of the royal household datedfrom Eltham that the word Grouse makes its first appearance in 4So BLACK GROUSE. our language as Grows. A small colony exists near Sandringhamin Norfolk, and locally the species is scattered over the wi
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