884 



APPENDIX. 



562 

 000. 

 563. 



COUES KEY, 1884. 



Pedioecetes phasianellus columbianus. 

 [Not admitted in the Key.] 

 Cupidonia cupido. 



UNION LIST, 1886. 



308rt. Pediocajtes phasianellus columbianus 

 308/>. phasianellus campestris. 



305. Tympanuchus americanus. 



306. cupido. 



563 ///.■-■. Add: Cupidonia cupido brewsteri. N. Brewster's Heath Hen. 

 This is the variety of the prairie-hen peculiar to Martha's Vineyard, Mass., differing appre- 

 ciably from the common stock, as pointed out by Mr. Brewster (Auk, 1885, p. 82), whose 

 inconclusive argument that Linnaeus based his name Tetrao cupido exclusively upon this 

 form, leaves me the pleasure of dedicating the variety to the accomplished ornithologist who 

 first called attention to its characters. 



573 his. Add: Ortyx ridgwayi. Arizona Bob-white. Masked Bob-white, 

 Hooded Quail. Adult ^ : Front, and sides of head and neck, black, with or without a nar- 

 row white frontal line and superciliary stripe. Under parts chestnut or cinnamon (about the 

 color of the breast of a robin), varying much in shade, generally unspotted, except on the 

 flanks, where the feathers are usually tipped with an oval white spot, preceded by a subter- 

 minal black bar; lower tail-coverts with a V-shaped black spot bordered with whitish ; occa- 

 sionally small touches of black and white along the sides. Crown, hind head, and nape mixed 

 black, white, and pale brown, or yellowish-white; hind neck and interscapulars reddish-brown, 

 usually with a grayish cast; back, rump, and upper tail-coverts minutely variegated with black- 

 ish, pale brown, and grayish- white, the black usually prevailing, but variable in amount. 

 "Wing-coverts rufous, each feather barred with blackish and edged and tipped with whitish ; 

 primaries dusky, edged and scalloped internally with whitish; secondaries externally dusky, 

 barred and freckled with pale brown and yellowish-white; inner secondaries and scapulai-s 

 edged with yellowish-white (very broadly so on the inner edges), and otherwise variegated. 

 Tail above bluish-gray, minutely freckled and waved with whitish; tail below gray, faintly 

 and irregularly barred and waved with grajdsh-white. Bill black ; feet horn-color ; iris brown. 

 Length 9.75; extent 14.25; wing 4.50; tail 2.75; tarsus 1.20. The female resembles that 



1 It is not easy to account for the perversity of the Committee in insisting upon recognizing by name among 

 the ptarmigan characters which have repeatedly been shown to be elusive. Parallel perversity extended to birds 

 at large would be ornithological anarchy. See Key, p. 568. 



