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PINNATED GROUS. 
brownish soot colour; throat elegantly marked with touches of 
reddish brown, white 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 considerably less, of a lighter 
colour; destitute of the neck wings, the naked yellow skin on 
the neck, and 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 briar knots, contain- 
ing the larvae of some insect, — quantities of a species of green 
lichen, small hard seeds, and some grains of Indian corn. 
