grous. 237 



in summer on gooseberries, raspberries, cranberries, currants, 

 and other fruits. It is called by some the Drumming Partridge. 

 The flesh is much esteemed, having a most delicate flavour, and in 

 season in September and October ; when these birds are in greater 

 plenty than at any other time of the year, and to be had in the 

 markets for a dollar a couple. 



7— PINNATED GROUS. 



Tetrao Cupido, Ind. Orn.W. 638. Lin. i. 274. Gm. Lin. i. 751. Borowsk. ii. 190. 



Amer. Orn. iii. pi. 27. f. 1. 

 Attagen Americana, Bris. i. 212. Id. 8vo. i. 59. 



Gelinotte huppee d'Amerique, Sonnin. Buf. vi. p. 74. Tern. Pig. Sf Gall. 8vo. iii. 161. 

 Urogallus minor fuscus in cervice plumis alas imitantibus, Klein, Av. 117. vii. Cat. 



Car. App. pi. 1. 

 Gelinotte a double ailes, Tab. Enc. Orn. p. 19. 

 Pinnated Grous, Gen. Syn. iv. 740. Arct. Zool. No. 180. 



SIZE of a Pheasant ; length nineteen inches, breadth twenty- 

 seven ; weight three pounds and a half. Over the eye a naked 

 orange-coloured skin ; bill brown ; irides hazel ; the whole plumage 

 reddish brown, transversely marked with black and white waved 

 lines ; the feathers of the head are elongated into a crest ; on each 

 side of the neck a tuft of feathers ; five of which are three inches in 

 length, and several others shorter,* one lapping over the other ; they 

 take rise high on the neck, not far from the hind part of the head ; 

 under the neck tufts are two wrinkled bladders, which the bird can 

 inflate, and when in that state, resemble a middle sized orange; 

 greater quills blackish, spotted with rufous on the outer edges ; tail 

 black beneath; legs covered with downy, brown feathers; toes naked, 

 pectinated, and pale brown. 



* These feathers are said in the Amer. Ornith. to be eighteen in number, five of which 

 are black, and three inches long, the rest shorter, unequal in length ; black, streaked with 

 brown. 



