248 BIRDS OF NEW ENGLAND AND EASTERN NEW YORK 



GALLINACEOUS BIRDS : ORDER GALLING 



PHEASANTS : FAMILY PHASIANIDiE 



The Ring-necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus) and 

 the English Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) have been 

 introduced in various places in New York and New Eng- 

 land, and have become well established here and there. 



GROUSE, BOB-WHITE, ETC. : FAMILY 

 TETRAONIDiE 



Though there are four species belonging to the Grouse 

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

 local that few observers will meet them. The Ruffed 

 Grouse or Partridge is everywhere distributed. The Quail 

 or Bob-white is common from Massachusetts southward. 

 The Spruce Grouse is a permanent, 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 Hen. Tympanuchus ciqndo 

 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, 

 without bars or bands, except a whitish tip. Ad. 9 • — Similar, but 

 neck-tufts much shorter. Tail barred with buff or light 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 



