ORDER GALLING. 175 



GENUS TYMPANUCHUS GLOGER. 



Tympanuchns "GLOGER, 1842," fide SUNDEV. Met. Nat. Av. Disp. 

 1874, 114. Type, Tetrao cupido LINN. 



305. Tympanuchus americanus (REICH.). 



Prairie Hen. 



Cupidonia americanus REICH. Syst. Av. 1852, p. xxix. ; based on 



Vollst. Naturg. Hiihnen., pi. 217, figs. 1896-1898. 

 Tympanuchus cupido americanus RIDGW. MS. 



[B 464, C 384, R 477, C 563.] 



HAB. Prairies of the Mississippi Valley, south to Louisiana, east 

 to Kentucky and Indiana. 



306. Tympanuchus cupido (LINN.). 



Heath Hen. 



Tetrao cupido LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 160. 



Tympanuchus cupido RIDGW. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. VIII. 1885, 355. 



[B 464, /<zr/, C 384, part, R 47 7, /;-/, C 563, fart.] 

 HAE. Island of Martha's Vineyard, Mass. 



307. Tympanuchus pallidicinctus (RTDGW.). 



Lesser Prairie Hen. 



Citpidonia cupido van pallidicincta RIDGW. Bull. Essex Inst. V. Dec. 



1873, 199- 

 Tympanuchus pallidicinctus RIDGW. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. VIII- 



1885, 355. 



[B C 384 rt, R 477^,0564.] 

 HAB. Eastern edge of the Great Plains, from Texas northward. 



GENUS FEDXOC.SJTES BAIRD. 



Pedioc&te* BAIRD, B. N. Am. 1858, 625. Type, Tetrao phasianellus 

 LINN 



