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a. Tetrao cupido, Lin, SyJ}. i. p. 274. 5-. 



PINNATED GIL La Gelinote hupee d'Amerique, Brif. om. i. p. 212. TO. 



Urogallus minor fufcus, cervice plumis alas imitantibus donata, Catefb. Car*, 



aftp. pi. 1, 

 Pinnated Grous, Ar3. Zool. 



Lev. Muf. 



©kssrjftion. 'T'H'IS fpecies is one-third bigger than the Common Partridge^ 

 The bill brown : irides hazel : the whole plumage reddifti 

 brown, marked tranfverfely with black and white waved lines : 

 the feathers of the head form a creft, and two tufts of long 

 feathers fpring from each fide of the hind part of the neck ; thefe 

 are five in number, lapping one over the other, the longed 

 three inches in length : the greater quills are blackilh, fpotted 

 with rufous on the outer edge : the tail black beneath : toes 

 yellow. 

 Female. The female is fmaller than, the male, lefs bright in colour, and 



wants the wing feathers on the neck. 

 Blajcje anb This Angular fpecies is found in Carolina,. New J erf ey, and 



^[AiJjjEM. other parts of North America, but particularly on the. brufhy 

 plains of Long IJland, where they are. very numerous ; fuppofed 

 to lay many eggs, as they are. feen in families of twenty-four or 

 twenty-five, old and young together. They breed in July. The 

 chief food is buckle- berries, and acorns of the dwarf oak. In 

 September and Oblober, form themfelves into flocks of two hundred 

 or more, and as foon as the fnow falls, frequent places where 

 the fines grow. The m,ale crows for half an hour about day- 

 break, and at that time fets the wing-like feathers quite up- 

 right, which in general are depending on each fide of the 

 2c neck. 



