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TETRAO CUPIDO. 
feathers, five of which are black, and about three inches 
lon^r; the rest shorter, also black, streaked laterally 
with brown, and of unequal leng^ths ; the head is slig-htly 
crested; over the eye is an eleg'aut semicircular comb 
of rich orange, which the bird has the power of raisin" 
or relaxing; \inder the neck wings, are two loo^, 
pendulous, and wrinkled skins, extending alon" the 
side of the neck for two-thirds of its length ; ea'ch of 
which, when inflated rvith air, resembles, in bulk, 
colour, and surface, a middle sized orange; chin, cream 
coloured ; under the eye runs a dark streak of brown; 
whole upper parts, mottled transvcreely with black, 
reddish brown, and white; tail short, very much rounded, 
and of a plain brownish soot colour; throat, elegantly 
marked with touches of reddish brown, ivhite, and 
black ; lower part of the breast and belly, pale brown, 
marked transversely with white ; legs, covered to the 
toes with hairy down of a dirty drab colour; feet, dull 
yellow ; toes, pectinated ; vent, whitish ; bill, brownish 
horn colour; eye, reddish hazel. The female is con- 
siderably less; of a lighter colour; destitute of the 
neck wings, the naked yellow skin on the neck, aud 
the semicircular comb of yellow over the eye. 
On dissecting these birds, the gizzard was found 
extremely muscular, having almost the hardness of a 
stone ; the heart remarkably large ; the crop was filled 
with brier knots, containing the larvm of some insect, 
quantities of a species of green lichen, small hard seeds, 
and some grains of Indian corn. 
EXD OF VOLUME SECOND. 
EDINBURGH 
Printod by Andrew Sbohtreed, Tliistle Lane. 
