Pinneated Grouse
Blue-green Warbler
Nashville Warbler
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Pinnated Grouse
"But what appears to me the most remarkable circumstance relative to this bird, is, that not one
of all those writers who have attempted its history, have taken the least notice of those two
extraordinary bags of yellow skin which mark the neck of the male, and which constitute so
striking a peculiarity. These appear to be formed by an expansion of the gullet, as well as of the
exterior skin of the neck, which, when the bird is at rest, hangs in loose, pendulous, wrinkled
folds, along the side of the neck, the supplemental wings, at the same time, as well as when the
bird is flying, lying along the neck, in the manner represented in one of the distant figures on the
plate. But when these bags are inflated with air, in breeding time, they are equal in size, and very
much resemble in colour, a middle sized fully ripe orange. By means of this curious apparatus,
which is very observable several hundred yards off, he is enabled to produce the extraordinary
sound mentioned above, which, tough is may be easily imitated, is yet difficult to describe by
words."
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