Sage Cock
the Centrocercus urophasianus, called also cock of the plains. It is the largest of the American grouse, in the bare spaces of orange-colored skin on each side of the neck, which he inflates during the mating season. Range from the Black Hills to California and Oregon, and from British Columbia nearly to Arizona. It feeds on the wormwood of the plains, and in consequence its flesh becomes so bitter as to be unfit for food. and the male has a distinctive character