Identifier: britishzoology01penn (find matches)
Title: British zoology
Year: 1776 (1770s)
Authors: Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798
Subjects: Zoology -- Great Britain
Publisher: Warrington, Printed by W. Eyres, for B. White, London
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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210.Cimbris mas Urhane, famina Urhoene. Norvcgis Orrfugl. Bru7inich, 196.Berkhan, Schildhan. Kram, 356. Birckhahn. Frifch, I. 109.Br. Zool. 85. tab. M. I. 2. PL Enl. 172, 173.Gallo sforcello Italis. Scopclij No. 169. Manners. rTT^HESE birds, like the former, are fond ofJt wooded and mountanous fituations; theyfeed on bilberries, and other mountain fruits j andin the winter on the tops of the heath. Theyare often found in woods; this and the precedingfpecies perching like the pheafant: in the fummerthey frequently defcend from the hills to feed oncorn : they never pair -, but in the fpring themale gets upon fome eminence, crows and claps his wings *j on which fignal all the females within * The rufted heathcock of America, a bird of this genus,does the fame. Ediv. Gl. p. 80. The cock of the wood a-grcts too in this exultation during the amorous feafon ; atwhich time the peafants in the Alps, directed by the found,have an opportunity of killing them. hearing l.XLJI . 2irp^;i, BLACK COCK
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Class II. B L A C K C O C K. 267 hearing refort to him: the hen lays leldom morethan fix or feven eggs. The young males quit theirmother in the beginning of winter-, and keep inflocks of feven or eight till fpring; during thattime they inhabit the woods : they are very quar-relfome, and will fight together like game cocks;and at that time are fo inattentive to their ownfafety, that it has often happened that two or threehave been killed at one fhot. An old black cock weighs near four pounds: Descrip.its length is one foot ten inches j its breadth twofeet nine: the bill dufky ; the plumage of thewhole body black, glofled over the neck and rumpwith a fhining blue. The coverts of the wingsare of a dufky brown : the four firft quil feathersare black, the next white at the bottom ; the lowerhalf of the fecondary feathers white, and the tipsare of the fame color: the inner coverts of the wingswhite: the thighs and legs are covered with darkbrown feathers; on the former are fome white fpots:

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