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whitish spots. Top of head rusty-brown with a blaclv vertical and a dusl<y auricular 

 patch. Lower parts yellowish-wliite, with irregularly defined, transverse, grajish-brown 

 broad bar.< ; anteriorly 

 more spotted, the jugulum 

 tinged with brown. 



Chick (2-5,989, Rock- 

 ford, 111.). Bright lemon- 

 buff, tinged on sides and 

 jugulum with reddish ; 

 upper parts much washed 

 with rusty. A narrow 

 auricular streak, Ijlotches 

 on the vertex and occiput, 

 a stripe across the shoul- 

 der, and blotches down 

 the middle of the back 

 and rump, deep black. 



Hab. Prairies of the Mis- 

 sissippi Valley, from Lou- 

 isiana, northward. East 

 to Pocono Mountains, 

 Pennsylvania. Formerly 

 along the eastern coast of 

 the United States from Long Island 

 Naushon (?) and Martha's Vineyard. 



Cupitlonia rtipiilo 



to Cape Cod, or farther. 



A few still left on 



A pair from Calcasieu Pass, Louisiana, most resemble IDiuois specimens, 

 but are smaller (wing, 8.60, instead of 9.00), and tliere is rather more reddish, 

 witli less black, in the plumage, 



H.U3ITS. The Pinnated Grouse, more generally known tln-ough the country 

 as the Prairie Chicken or Prairie Hen, once occurred as far to the east as 

 Massachusetts, a few still remaining on tlie island of j\Iartha's Vineyard, 



and where it was, in 

 tlie early settlement of 

 the coitntrj', a very 

 abundant bird ; and to 

 the southwest to Texas 

 anil throughout the 

 Indian Territory, where 

 it appears to be extend- 

 ing with the areas de- 

 veloped by civilization. 

 While at the East this 

 liird has almost entirely 

 disappeared, in consequence of the increase of population, and except here 

 and tliere in a few small and distant districts has disappeared from the 

 Middle and Eastern States, at tlie West and Southwest it has greatly 

 extended its distribution, appearing in considerable numbers, and constantly 



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