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TETRAONID^E. 



grey, white, black, and fawn-colour ; legs and toes red, the 

 former with a blunt rounded knob in the situation of a 

 spur ; the claws brown. 



Whole length thirteen inches and a half. From the 

 carpal joint to the end of the wing six inches and one 

 quarter; the first quill-feather as long as the sixth, but 

 both shorter than the second, third, fourth, or fifth, which 

 are nearly equal, and the longest in the wing. 



The female is rather smaller than the male ; but does 

 not differ much, except that the plumage is not quite so 

 bright in colour, and she has no rounded spur-like knob on 

 the legs. 



