440 NORTH AMKKK'AX UlllDS. 



Species and Varieties. 



C. cupido. Ground-color above yellowish-lirown, tinged with grayish and 

 reddish ; beneath white ; whole upper and lower parts variegated with 

 transverse bands, — those beneath regular, broad, sharply defined, and plain 

 dusky-brown, those above more broken, broader, and deep black. Head 

 bull', with a broad vertical stripe, a broad one beneath the eye from bill to 

 ears, and a patch on lower side of auriculars, brownish-black. 



Tarsi clothed with long hair-like feathers, the bare posterior face 

 entirely hidden. Dark bars above, .30 or more in width, deep black; 

 those beneath, about .20 wide, and dark brown. Top of head nearly 

 uniformly blackish ; face-stripes dusky-black. Bill, .40 deep, ..50 long ; 

 wing, 9.00. Hub. Prairies of the Mississippi Valley ; south to Louisi- 

 ana; formerly eastward to Long Island and Pennsylvania . . var. cupido. 

 Tai-si clothed with short feathers, the bare posterior face conspicuously 

 exposed. Dark bars above less than .20 in width, dark grayish-brown ; • 

 those beneath about .10 wide, and pale grayish-brown. Top of head 

 with only a slight spotting of blackish ; face-markings reddish-brown. 

 Bill, .35 deep, .5.5 long, from nostril ; wing, 8.30. Hah. Southwestern 

 Prairies (Texas ?) var. pallidicinctus. 



Cupidonia cupido, var. cupido, Baied. 



PEAIEIE HEN; PRAIEIE CHICKEN; PINNATED GROUSE. 



Tetrao cupido, Lis.v. Syst. Nat. \, 1758, 160. — Gm. I, 751. — L.\tu. Ind. Orn. H, 1790. 



— Wilson, Am. Om. Ill, 1811, 104, pi. xx\-ii. — Bos. Mon. Tetrao, Am. Phil. Trans. 

 \\\, 1830, 392. — NUTT.4LL, Man. I, 662. —AuD. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 490; V, 1839, 

 559, pi. cbcxxvi. — Ib. Buds Araer. V, 1842, 93, pi. cexcx^i. — KocH, Wiegmanu's 

 Archiv, 1836, i, 159. — Max. Cab. J. VI, 1858, 439. Bontuta cupido, Stephens, 

 Shaw's Gen. Zobl. XI, 299. — Gray, Cat. Brit. Mus. V, 1867, 88. Cupidonia ameri- 

 cana, Reich. Av. Syst. Nat. 1850, p. xxix. — Boxav. Comptes Eeudus, XLV, 1857, 

 428. Cupidonia cupido, Baikd, Birds N. Am. 1858, 628. — Elliot, P. A. N. S. 1864. 



— Ib. Monog. Tetraon. pi. — Dresser, Ibis, 1866, 26 (Brownsville, Te.xas). — Mat- 

 NARD, B. E. Mass. 1870, 138 (Martha's Vineyard, and Naushon Island, Mass.) 



Sp. Char. Male (10,006, Tremont, Illinois; W. I. Shaw). Gro\md-color above 

 ochraceou.s-brown, tinged with gr.ayish ; beneath white, the feathers of the jugulum dark 

 rusty-chestnut beneath the surface. Head mostly deep buff. Upper parts much broken 

 by broad transverse spots, or irregular bars, of deep black, this color predominating large- 

 ly over the lighter tints. Primaries and tail plain dusky ; the former with roundish spots 

 of pale ochraceous on outer webs, the latter ver}' narrowly tipped with white. Lower 

 parts with regular, continuous, sharpl}' defined broad bars, or narrow bands, of clear 

 dusky-brown. A broad stripe of plain brownish-black on side of head, beneath the 

 eye, from rictus to end of auriculars ; a blotch of the same beneath the middle of the 

 auriculars, and the top of the head mostly blackish, leaving a broad superciliary and 

 maxillary stripe, and the whole throat immaculate buff. Neck-tufts 3..50 inches long, deep 

 black ; the longer ones uniform, the shorter with only the edge black, the whole middle 

 portion pale bufl', shading info deep reddish-rusty next to the black. Wing, 9.00 ; tail, 

 4.50 ; bill, .40 deep by .50 long, from nostril ; tarsus, 2.10 ; middle toe, 1.85. Female 

 similar, but with shorter and inconspicuous cervical tufts. Young (25,998, Rockford, 

 Illinois ; Blackman). Above, including t^il, yellowish-brown ; feathers with conspicuous 

 white shaft^streaks and large blotches of deep black. Outer webs of primaries with 



