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SHOULDER-KNOT HEATHCOCK. 
and white : the breast, and all the under parts, 
are striped alternately with white and brown : tlie 
quills are dusky, witli reddish spots on their outer 
webs : the upper tail-coverts are similar to the 
back : the tail is dusky, tipped with black above, 
and brown, with white coverts, below : the beak 
is of a yellow-brown : the irides hazel. The female 
is rather less than the male, the colours are less 
brilliant, and she is entirely destitute of the wing- 
like feathers on the neck. 
This species is found in Carolina, New Jersey, 
and other parts of North America, but particularly 
on the brushy plains of Long Island, where they 
are very numerous : they lay a considerable num- 
ber of eggs : in the autumn they live in little 
families, and towards the commencement of winter 
they associate in flocks of two hundred or more, 
and as the snow falls, frequent the places where 
pines and other trees grow, that serve them for 
nourishment : their chief food is kuckle berries, and 
acorns of the dwarf oaks. The male crows for 
half an hour aboirt daybreak, and at that time 
sets the wing-like feathers quite upright, which 
in general are depending on each side of the neck. 
SHOULDER-KNOT HEATHCOCK. 
(Bonasa Umbellus.) 
Bo. capitc cristato, corpore supra Jiisco nifo nigroquc varicgalo, 
suhtus Jidvo-albo, pectore lunulis Juscis variegato pcnnis ajdl- 
