200 FEATHERED GAME 
but lighter and somewhat reddish at the side. 
Below, white; breast, sides and crissum black 
with white spottings. Tail brown with chestnut 
and white barrings. Quills dusky, with white 
shafts. Wing coverts dusky gray. Bill black, 
yellowish at base. Legs dull yellow. The face 
bare of feathers and covered with small, yel- 
low, wart-like growths. The long neck feath- 
ers are almost never alike in their coloring 
on any two specimens—in fact, there is a wide 
variation in the color arrangement all through. 
The ‘‘ruff’? is an adornment for the spring 
love-making, only worn by the males, and may 
be of any color or combination of colors be- 
tween pure white and jet black. The length of 
this species from twelve to thirteen inches; ex- 
tent from twenty-two to twenty-three inches. 
The female is quite a little smaller and not 
such a striking bird. She lacks the ‘‘ruff,’’ as 
before stated, also the peculiar growths on the 
face, and looks much like the ‘‘grassbird,’’ 
though considerably larger. 
