BRITISH BIRDS. 
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p.re peculiar, and with thofe which connect it with 
birds of the gallinaceous kind, it has others which 
feem to belong to the Oftrich and the Callow ary : 
Its bill is ftrong and rather convex ; its eyes red ; 
on each fide of the lower bill there is a tuft of fea- 
thers about nine inches long ; its head and neck 
are afh-coloured. In the one defcribed by Ed- 
wards, there were on each fide of the neck two na- 
ked fpots, of a violet colour, but which appeared to 
be covered with feathers when the neck was much 
extended. The back is barred tranfverfely with 
black and bright ruft colour ; the quills are black ; 
the belly white ; the tail conftfts of twenty feathers 
- — the middle ones are ruft colour, barred with 
black ; thofe on each fide are white, with a bar or 
two of black near the ends ; the legs are long, na- 
ked above the knees, and dulky ; it has no hind 
toe ; its nails are lhort, ftrong, and convex both 
above and below ; the bottom of the foot is fur- 
nilhed with a callous prominence, which ferves in- 
ftead of a heel.— -The female is not much more 
than half the fize of the male : The top of her head 
is of a deep orange, the reft of the head brown ; 
her colours are not lo bright as thofe of the male, 
and fhe wants the tuft on each fide of the head : 
There is likewife another very effential difference 
between the male and the female, the former being 
furnilhed with a fac or pouch, which is fituated in 
the fore part of the neck, and is capable of contain- 
ing about two quarts; the entrance to it is im- 
