Possible Clues:

• Sort of female pheasant
• Female bird with a showy mate
• Pheasant cousin
• Female fowl that doesn't have that ornate tail
• Ha'pence for change caught out object of extravagant courtship
• Write about a male water bird
• Large female bird of the pheasant family
• Wild ___
• Female bird in Spooner's male enclosure
• Female fowl that's less showy than the male