. The gallinaceous game birds of North America, including the partridges, grouse, ptarmigan, and wild turkeys .. . eeye; under parts, white, barred with brown or blackish brown;flanks, barred with blackish brown, and buff; under tail-coverts,white, edged at tip with brown and margined with dark brownand buff; tail, brown, darkest on median feathers, and tippedwith white; large sac of loose skin, capable of inflation beneaththe long neck feathers. Total length, about i8 inches; wing, 9;tail, \\. Adult Female.—Resembles the male, but is without the necksac, has the neck tufts very short or rudim
. The gallinaceous game birds of North America, including the partridges, grouse, ptarmigan, and wild turkeys .. . eeye; under parts, white, barred with brown or blackish brown;flanks, barred with blackish brown, and buff; under tail-coverts,white, edged at tip with brown and margined with dark brownand buff; tail, brown, darkest on median feathers, and tippedwith white; large sac of loose skin, capable of inflation beneaththe long neck feathers. Total length, about i8 inches; wing, 9;tail, \\. Adult Female.—Resembles the male, but is without the necksac, has the neck tufts very short or rudimentary, and the tailfeathers have numerous distinct bars of buff. Total length,about \i\ inches; wing, 8|; tail, 3f. Ii6 GAME BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA. In the breeding season there is a red skin over the eye, largeand erectile in the male. Downy Young.—General color, yellowish buff, inclined torusty on breast and sides; several spots or broken lines on headand occiput, stripe across shoulder, and blotches on back andrump black, wing feathers barred with light brown and buff, andstriped in center with iyi^M^ii***^- ^Wtv b\\eVV>v 24. Heath Hen. HEATH HEN. jVyTARTHAS VINEYARD, an island ofif the coast ofMassachusetts, is the last stronj^hold of the HeathHen, which formerly dwelt in various parts of that State,as well as in Connecticut, on Long Island, on HempsteadPlains, and other localities. New Jersey, and Pennsyl-vania. It may also have ranged over a greater part ofthe Middle States. It closely resembles the PinnatedGrouse of the Western States, and it would require anexpert to distinguish readily the points of dififerencebetween them. But still in coloring, shape of the lance-olate neck feathers of the male, short tarsus, and gen-erally smaller size, it has sufficient differences to beclassed as a distinct species. The Heath Hen is, now at all events, a woodland birdand dwells among the almost impregnable tracts ofscrubby oaks and pines which cover perhaps an area
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