APPEXDIX. 589 



(P. Throat with black iirodominating ; rusty markings on upper parts duller and 

 less extended, rump less olivaceous, tail more bluish graj^, and white spots 

 on lower parts larger; adult female vriih crest uniform blackish, whole 

 throat thickly speckled or streaked with blackish, back nearly uniform 

 graj-, and uiarkiiigs of lower parts larger and coarser. Mab. Sonora 

 (vicinity of Campo.s). 



C. elegans bensoni Ridgw. Benson's Partridge.' 



(24.) Page 19G, after species of Dendragapus : 



Genus TETRAO Linxjxs.' 



Adult male: Glossy blue-black, the wings dusky with a conspicuous white 

 patch on secondaries ; under tail-coverts white ; tail deejily emargiuatc or forked, 

 the four outermost rectrices strongly curled outward at tips. Length about 

 23.50, wing about 10.50, tail 8.80. Adult female tawny-brown, barred and spotted 

 with black ; tail emarginate, the lateral rectrices not distinctly, if at all, curved 

 outward at tips. Length about 17.00, wing 8.90, tail 4.50. Hab. Europe and 

 northern and central Asia. Introduced into Newfoundland, and said to be 

 naturalized there T. tetrix Linn.' Black Cock. 



(25.) Page 203, under Tympanuchus americanus : 



305a. Tympanuchus americanus attwateri (Benpire). 



Attwater's Prairie Hen.* 

 "Smaller than T. americanus, darker in color, more tawny above, usually 

 with more pronounced chestnut on the neck; smaller and inoro tawny light- 

 colored spots on wingcoverts, and much more scantily feathered tarsus, the 

 latter never feathered down to the base of the toes, even in front; a broad 

 posterior stripe of bare skin being always exposed, even in winter, while in 

 summer much the greater part of the tarsus is naked." Hab. Coast districts 

 of southwestern Louisiana and Texas. 



(2C.) Page 205, under Family PHASIANID.ffi : 



Add, under " rt'. . . . (Subfamily F/tasianhuv)" the following: 



t'. Head not crested Phasianus. 



i'. Head conspicuously crested. 



c'. Neck with a conspicuous erectile ruff. Chrysolophus.' 



c'. Neck without any ruif. Gennseus.' 



' Callipela elegant bentoni RiDOW., Forest and Stream, x.Tviii. No. 6, March 3, 1887, 106. 

 ' Telrno Lltiv., Syst. Nnt. od. 10, i. 1768, 159. Type, by cliininntion, Tetrao tetrix LiHN. 

 » Trtrno telriz LlU!«., Syst. Nat. ed. 10, i. 175S, 159. 



« Tyni/inniicAut atliraieri Br.xDiRK, Foro?t anil Slrojim, xl. No. 20, May 18, 1893, 425. — Tt/mpanuchut 

 americnmit nltimleri A. 0. U. Com., Auk, jci. Jan. IRDl, 4«. 



> Chiytnlophiit J. E. OnAV. Illustr. Indian Zool. ii. 18.11, pi. .|1, fig. 2. Type, Phatinnni pictiit LiNS. 

 • Gcniiaut Waoler, Isis, 1SC2, 122?. Type, Phatinniit nyclhemerut Liss. 



