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Identifier: britishgamebirds00morr (find matches)
Title: British game birds and wildfowl
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Morris, Beverley Robinson Fawcett, Benjamin, 1808-1893, engraver
Subjects: Game and game-birds Birds Birds
Publisher: London : Groombridge and Sons ...
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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the male. Head 28 CAPERCAILLIE. and all the upper parts are ochre brown, barred with black or dark brown. Front ofneck and breast are brownish orange. The breast feathers, narrowly edged with gray,inside which is a slight band of black. Legs, covered with grayish brown feathers.Toes and claws, pale brown. The young birds, of both sexes, resemble the female till the first moult, and the malestake three years to acquire the full adult plumage. The weight of the adult male, Mr. Lloyd says, varies much in different localities:thus, in Lapland they seldom exceed nine or ten pounds; in Wermeland they will reachthirteen pounds; while in the southern provinces of Sweden they will reach seventeenpounds and upwards. The hen Capercaillie seldom much exceeds five or six pounds. In length the adult male Capercaillie will of course vary considerably; but its usuallength will be from two feet nine to three feet four inches. The females vary from onefoot ten to two feet two or three inches in length.
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29 BLACK GROUSE. BLACK COCK. GRAY HEN. Tetrao tetrix, .... Linnets. Tetras Birlclian, .... Temjeenck. Tetrao—A Bustard. Tetrix, Qutere, Teter—Black or dark. The Black Grouse being a natural inhabitant of Great Britain, and not an introducedbird, is, as might be expected, very generally distributed wherever situations agreeableto its habits are found. In the south of England it occurs in the New Forest, inHampshire; in Devonshire, near Axmouth, and on the wild country of Dartmoor, Sedge-moor, and Exnioor, as well as on Lord Caernarvons estates near Dulvarton; in Sussex, onAshdown Forest; in Surrey in several localities—one female is mentioned by Mr. AlfredNewton as having been picked up dead, and a male seen at Elvedon, in Suffolk; onefemale was shot in Oxfordshire in 1836, as recorded by the Revs. A. and H. Matthews.In Somerset, they also occur on the higher ground near Taunton, and elsewhere; inWorcestershire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cumberland, and No

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