PINNATEDGROUS, ^ 305 



migratory; flaying all the year at ?^oofe Fcrt : they build their neft 

 on dry ground, hatch nine young at a time, to which the mother 

 clucks as our common hens do; and, on the left appearance of danger, 

 or in order to enjoy an agreeable degree of warmth, the young ones 

 retire under the wings of their parent. 



Urogallus minor fufcus cervice plumis alas imitantibus donata, Catejby, App. tab. i. igc. Pinnatebo 



Tetrao Cupido, Lin. Sjfi. 274. — Latham, 



La Gelinote hupee d'Amerique, BriJJon, 1. 212. — Lev. Mus. — Bl. Mus. 



ITIR. With head, cheeks, and neck of a reddifh brown, marked 

 with dufty lines : chin and throat of a pale rufty brown : 

 on the head is a fmall creft : on each fide of the neck a moft fin- 

 gular tuft (five feathers in each) gradually lengthening to the fifth,; 

 which is about three inches long : the upper feathers ferruginous, 

 and white ; the lower black : back and fcapulars black and pale 

 ruft-colou,r; the former fpotted with white: breaft and belly barred 

 with white and pale brown : tail barred with pale brown and black. . • 



Legs covered with foft brown feathers : toes naked and peflinated. 



Size of a Pheafant. A peculiar fpecies, not to be confounded with Sizb. 



the preceding *. Defcribed from the real bird by Mr. Catejby ; and by 

 myfelf from the fpecimens in Mrs. Blackburn'^ cabinet ; vyhich were." 

 fent from the province of ConmSkut. Is frequent about a hun- Place. 



dred miles up Albany river, in Hudfon's Bay, 



The tufts, which diftinguifh this fpecies from all others, are 

 rooted high on the neck, not far from the hind part of the head., , 

 The bird has the power of ere6ling or dropping them at pleafure.. 

 When difturbed, it would fpread them horizontally, like little wings;, 

 at other times let them fall on the fides of the neck f. It is pro- 

 bable, that they affift in running or flying, or perhaps both, as the 

 real wings are very fiiort, in proportion to the weight of the body. 

 Thefe appendages ^re peculiar to the cock, and almoft the only dif- 

 ference between it and the hen, 



* The Comte De Bvjon, ii. 282. falls into this miftake. f CateJI>y. 



R r Long. 



