ORDER GALLIN&. IIS 
Genus TYMPANUCHUS G1iocer. 
Tympanuchus GLOGER, Gemeinnutzig. Hand. und Hilfsbuch 
Naturg. 1842, 396. Type, Zetrao cupido LINN. 
305. Tympanuchus americanus (REICH.). 
Prairie Hen. 
Cupidonia americanus Reicu. Syst. Av. 1852, p. xxix; based on 
Vollst. Naturg. Htihnen. pl. 217, figs. 1896-1898. 
Tympanuchus americanus Ripcw. Auk, Jan. III. 1886, 133. 
[B 464, C 384, R 477, € 563.] 
Groc. Dist.— Prairies of the Mississippi Valley ; south to Louisi- 
ana and Texas, east to Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, and 
Ontario; west through eastern portions of North Dakota, South 
Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and the Indian Territory ; north to Man- 
itoba; general tendency to extension of range westward and con- 
traction eastward; migration north and south in Minnesota, Iowa, 
and Missouri. 
305 a. Tympanuchus americanus attwateri (BENpIRE). 
Attwater’s Prairie Hen. 
Tympanuchus attwatert BENDIRE, Forest and Stream, XL. No. 20, 
May 18, 1893, 425. 
Lympanuchus americanus attwateri A.O. U. Check-List, 6th Suppl. 
Auk, XI. April, 1894, 130. 
[B 464, part, C 384, part, R 477, part, C 563, part. | 
Geoc. Dist.— Coast region of Louisiana and Texas. 
306. Tympanuchus cupido (Linv.). 
Heath Hen. 
Tetrao cupido LINN. S. N. ed. to, I. 1758, 160. 
Tympanuchus cupido Ripew. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. VIII. 1885, 
359: 
[B 464, part, C 384, part, R 477, part, C 563 part.) 
Geos. Dist.— Island of Martha’s Vineyard, Mass. (Formerly 
southern New England and parts of the Middle States.) 
