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TETEAO CUPIDO. 
haze), immediately above which is a small spot of bare 
skin, of a scarlet colour; crested; head and neck, 
variegated with black, red brown, white, and pale 
brown; sides of the neck, fiiruisbed with a tuft of 
large black feathers, twenty-nine or thirty in number, 
which it occasionally raises ; this tuft covers a large 
space of the neck destitute of feathers ; body above, * 
bright rust colour, marked n ith oval spots of yellowish 
white, and sprinkled with black; wings, plain olive 
brown, exteriorly edged with white, spotted with olive, 
the tail is rounding, extends five inches beyond the 
tips of the wings, is of a bright reddish brown, beauti' 
fully marked witli numerous waving transverse bars of 
black, is also crossed by a broad band of black, within 
half an inch of the tip, which is bluish white, thickly 
sprinkled and specked with black ; body below, white, 
marked with largo blotches of pale brown ; the leg* 
are covered half way to the feet with hairy down of * 
brownish white colour; legs and feet, pale ash; toes, 
pectinated along the sides ; the two exterior one® 
joined at the base, as far as the first joint, by a mei»' 
brane ; vent, yellowish rust colour. 
The female, and young birds, differ in having tb® 
ruff or tufts of feathers on the neck of a dark brou'® 
colour ; as well as the bar of black on the tail indini®? 
much to the same tint. 
SOBGENOS II. TETBAO, Vimi.1.. 
192. TETBAO CUFinOf LINN. AND WILS. PINNATED GBOOSS' 
WILSON, PLATE XXVII. FIG. I. MALE. 
Before I enter on a detail of the observations whicl* 
I have myself personally made on this singular specie^ 
I shall lay before the reader a comprehensive and verf 
circumstantial memoir on the subject, commuuicated ^ 
me by the writer. Dr Samuel L. Mitchell, of 
York, whose exertions, both in his public and 
capacity, in behalf of science, and in elucidating 1®, 
natural history of his country, are well known, 
highly honourable to his distinguished situation 
