92 DUSKY GROUSE. 



with broad and short scutella, margined, but scarcely pectinate, the lateral 

 scales not being prominent. Claws rather large, arched, compressed, rather 

 obtuse. 



Plumage full, soft, rather blended, the feathers broad and rounded. A 

 bare papillate space around the eye. Feathers on the upper part of the head 

 narrow and elongated. Wings rather short, convex, much rounded; the 

 quills very strong; the third longest, the fourth next, the third and sixth 

 about equal, as are the first and seventh. Tail large, of ordinary length, 

 rounded, of twenty feathers, which are broader. toward the end, and abruptly 

 rounded. 



Bill brownish-black, lighter at the base. Iris dark hazel. Toes bluish- 

 grey, claws wood-brown. Papillar space around the eye vermilion. Upper 

 parts blackish-brown, the wings lighter. The elongated feathers on the 

 head greyish-brown; the hind neck minutely undulated with bluish-grey; 

 the scapulars, inner secondaries, and smaller wing-coverts also minutely 

 undulated with grey and brownish-red, and most of the latter with a small 

 greyish tip; the rump and upper tail-coverts obscurely undulated with grey. 

 Alula, primary coverts and quills, clove-brown, the secondaries bordered 

 and tipped with yellowish-grey; the primaries mottled with grey on their 

 outer webs. The tail is black. The sides of the head, fore part and sides of 

 the neck, and fore part of the breast greyish-black; the lore and throat are 

 barred with white; the greyish-black of the breast passes into blackish-grey, 

 and finally into dull bluish-grey; the feathers of the abdomen tipped with 

 greyish-white, as are the lower rump and tail-coverts, which have moreover 

 one or two narrow bars of the same; the flanks undulated with black and 

 marked with an elongated white spot along the central part and on the tip; 

 axillary feathers white, as are the inner wing-coverts; the tarsal feathers 

 brownish-grey. The concealed part of the plumage is light grey, unless on 

 the feathers around the bare space on each side of the neck, which is of an 

 orange colour, and which the bird inflates. 



Length to end of tail 22 inches, to end of wings 15-|; to end of claws 18^; 

 extent of wings 30; wing from flexure 9-£; tail 7^; bill along the ridge 1, 

 along the edge of lower mandible 1 f§ ; tarsus 1 T 9 2; hind toe -f^y its claw -£%; 

 second toe l T 2 f j its claw fa third toe l-\°, its claw -ff; fourth toe lj S , its 

 claw -||. 



Female. 



The female is considerably smaller than the male. The bare papillar 

 space over the eye is of much less extent, but, as well as the bill and feet, is 

 coloured as in the male. The upper parts are dark greyish-brown, barred 

 on the neck with grey, or the other parts barred and minutely undulated 

 with yellowish-brown; the wings as in the male, but lighter and more 



