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GAME BIRDS Or NORTH AMERICA. 



In the breeding season there is a red skin over the eye, large 

 and erectile in the male. 



Downy Voun^s^. — 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. 



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