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the side of the throat. Membrane above the eye scarlet. Bare 
skin of the sounding bladder orange. The longest feathers of 
the neck tufts are dark brown on the outer webs, pale yellowish 
red and margined with dusky on the inner, excepting the low¬ 
est, which are all brownish black. The lower parts are marked 
with large transverse curved bands of grayish brown and pale 
yellowish gray, the tints deeper on the anterior parts and under 
the wings. Under tail coverts arranged in three sets, the mid¬ 
dle feathers convex, involute, white, with two concealed brown 
spots ; the lateral larger, of the same form, abrupt, variegated 
with dusky red and white, the extremity of the latter color, but 
with a very narrow terminal margin of black. The tibial and 
tarsal feathers are gray, obscurely and minutely banded with 
yellowish brown. 
“ Length 18 inches ; extent of wings, 27 1 ; bill along the 
back, X 2 ; along the edge, ; tarsus, 1* ; weight, lib. 13oz. 
u Adult female. 
u The female is considerably smaller than the male, and wants 
the crest, neck-tufts and air-bags, but in other respects resembles 
him. 5, T— Audubon’s Birds of America. 
Attagen Americana, Brissot f 1 , p. 59—Pinnated Heath-Cock, 
Bonnasa Cupido, Steph. Sh. cont. 1 1 , p. 299—Tetrao Cupido, 
Bonap. Synop, p. 126. 
“ Before I enter on a detail of the observations which I have 
myself personally made on this singular species, I shall lay be¬ 
fore the reader a comprehensive and very circumstantial memoir 
on the subject, communicated to me by the writer, Dr. Samuel 
L. Mitchill, of New York, whose exertions both in his public 
and private capacity, in behalf of science, and in elucidating the 
natural history of his country, are well known and highly honor¬ 
able to his distinguished situation and abilities. That peculiar 
tract, generally known by the name of the Brushy Plains of Long 
Island, having been from time immemorial the resort of the bird 
now before us, some account of this particular range of country 
seemed necessarily connected with the subject, and has accord¬ 
ingly been obligingly attended to by the learned Professor : 
