170 MACHETES. RUFF. 



web. Claws small, arched, much compressed, tapering, 

 acute. 



Plumage moderately full, soft, and rather blended, on the 

 back and wings distinct. Wings long, pointed ; quills 

 twenty-five ; primaries tapering, the first longest ; seconda- 

 ries short, incurved, but the inner elongated, one of them 

 nearly as long as the first primary when the wing is closed. 

 Tail short, doubly emarginate, of twelve feathers. 



The males, which are polygamous, have the face covered 

 with tubercles, and the neck furnished with a large ruff, 

 during the breeding season. 



