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PINNATED CR.
pESC&IPTION.
F e m a l e *
$ L A £ £ A K B
Manners.
Tetrao cupido, Lin. Syji. i. p. 274. t,
La Gelinote hupée d’Amérique,. Brif, orn, i. p. 212. 10.
Urogallus minor fufcus, cervice plumis alas imitantibus donatâ, Catejb. Can,
app. pi. 1.
Pinnated Grous, Arft. Zool.
Lew. Mu/.
' J ’ HIS fpecies is one-third bigger than, the Common Partridge,
The. bill brown irides hazel : the whole plumage reddilh,
brown, marked tranfverfely with black and white waved lines i
the feathers of the head form a cr.eft, and two tufts of long,
feathers fpring from each fide of the hind part of the neck ; thefe-
are five in number, lapping, one over the other, the longeft
three inches in length : the greater quills are blackifh, fpotted,
with rufous on, the outer edge : the tail black beneath : toes,
yellow.
The female is fmaller than the male, lefs bright in colour, and,
wants the wing feathers on the neck.
This fingular fpecies is found in Carolina, New Jersey, and,
other parts of North America, but particularly on the brufhy
plains of Pong IJland, where they are very numerous -, fuppofed
to lay many eggs,, as they are feen in families of twenty-four or
twenty-five, old and young together. They breed in July. The
chief food is buckle-berries, and' acorns, of the dwarf oak. In.
September and QSlober, form themfelves into flocks of two hundred,
or more, and as foon as the fno.w falls, frequent places where-
the pines grow. The male crows for half an hour about day— :
break, and at that time fets the wihg-like feathers quite up—
tight, which in general are depending on each fide of the
■ k betki.
neck*, Tt is obferved that more males are brought to market
than females, no doubt occafioned by their being betrayed to the-
fportfman by their noife-
Tstrao lagopus, Lin. Syfi. i. p, *74. 4,—Faun. Suec. 203.— Scef. am. i.
N? 170.— Rail Sytt. p. 55. 3,— Brun. p. 59.—Muller, N° 223.—
Phil. Tranf. vol. ïxii. p. 39p.— Fri/ch. pi. n o . i n .—Kram. el. p.
356,— Faun. Groent. N° 80 -—Gtorgi Reije, p. 172,
La Gelinote blanche, Brifi orn. i. p. 216. 12.— PU enl. 129. (in the winter
drefs.)-—El. enl. 494. (in that of fumraer).
Le Lagopède, Buf. oif. ii. p. 264. pi. 9—
White Game, Will, orn. p. 176. pi. 32.
Ptarmigan, Br. Zool. i. NJ 93.— Gent. Mag, 1772. pi., in.p. 74.— Tour in
Scott. 177*. pi. 16; f. ___Ar3 . Ztol.
Br. Mu/. Lev. Mu/.
T E N G T H from fourteen to fifteen inches.. Bill black : the
plumage of a pale hrown or a(h-colour, elegantly crofted
or mottled with fmall du Iky fpots, and minute bars the head
and neck, with broad bars of black, ruft-colour, and white.: the
wings white ; the fhafes, o f the greater qyills black : the belly
white. In the male the grey predominates, except on the head
and neck, where there is a great mixture of red, with bars of
white. The females and young birds have a great deal of
ruft-colour. about them : both agree in their winter-dreis, which
is pure white,, except that in the male a black line occurs between
the bill and eye, and the fliafts of the firft. feven quills are
black : the taif eonfifts of fixteen feathers j the two middle ones-
»• Catejhy'i figure feems to. be in. the middle date between thefe.
10, 4-PTARMIGAN,
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