Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A grouse that lives in the woods.
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Among the trees was the guan, another peculiar bird as big as a big grouse, and with certain habits of the wood-grouse, but not akin to any northern game-bird.
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Among the trees was the guan, another peculiar bird as big as a big grouse, and with certain habits of the wood-grouse, but not akin to any northern game-bird.
Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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CAPERCAILYE, CAPERCALYEANE, _s. _ the wood-grouse or cock of the wood, _Tetrao urogallus_ (Linn.)
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. Alexander Leighton 1837
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