248 BIRDS OF NEW ENGLAND AND EASTERN NEW YORK 



GALLINACEOUS BIRDS : ORDER GALLING 

 PHEASANTS : FAMILY PHASIANIDiE 



The Ring-necked Pheasant {Fhasianus torquatus) and 

 the English Pheasant {Fhasimius colchicus) have been 

 introduced in various places in New York and New Eng- 

 land, and have become well established here and there. 



GROUSE, SPRUCE PARTRIDGES, ETC.: FAMILY 



TETRAONIDJE 



Though there are three species belonging to the Grouse 

 family in Kew York and New England, two are so rare or 

 local that few observers will meet them. The Ruffed 

 Grouse or Partridge in one or the other of its two forms 

 is everywhere distributed. The Spruce Partridge is a per- 

 manent, though rather rare or local, resident of extensive 

 spruce forests in northern New York and New England. 

 On Martha's Vineyard a very small colony of the Heath 

 Hen are the last representatives on the Atlantic coast of the 

 Prairie Hen so common in the West. 



Heath Hex. Tympanuchus cupido 



18.00 



Ad. $ . — Upper parts brownish, barred with black and buff ; 

 under parts white, barred with brown ; sides of the neck with 

 tufts of stiff, rather long black feathers. Tail grayish-brown, 

 loithout bars or hands, except a whitish tip. Ad. 9- — Similar, but 

 neck-tufts much shorter. Tail barred with buff or ligfht brown. 



Nest, on ground. Eggs, creamy buff, with a slight greenish 

 tinge. 



The Heath Hen is the eastern representative of the 

 Prairie Hen of the West, and though formerly found along 



