116 GAME BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA. 
In the breeding season there is ared skin over the eye, large 
and erectile in the male. 
Downy Young.—General color, yellowish buff, inclined to 
rusty on breast and sides; several spots or broken lines on head 
and occiput, stripe across shoulder, and blotches on back and 
rump black, wing feathers barred with light brown and buff, and 
striped in center with white. 
