38 PINNATED GROUS. 



brownish soot colour; throat elegantly marked with touches of 

 reddish brown, white and black; lower part of the breast and 

 belly pale brown, marked transversely with white; legs covered 

 to the toes with hairy down, of a dirty drab colour; feet dull 

 yellow, toes pectinated; vent whitish; bill brownish horn colour; 

 eye reddish hazel. The female is considerably less, of a lighter 

 colour; destitute of the neck wings, the naked yellow skin on 

 the neck, and the semicircular comb of yellow over the eye. 



On dissecting these birds the gizzard was found extremely 

 muscular, having almost the hardness of a stone; the heart 

 remarkably large; the crop was filled with briar knots, contain- 

 ing the larvae of some insect, quantities of a species of green 

 lichen, small hard seeds, and some grains of Indian corn. 



