CUPIDONIA CUPIDO : PRAIRIE HEN. 



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was seen in Connecticut, for even Linsley, in 1842, gave 

 it as a bird of the past. Nuttall, ten years earlier (in 

 1832), said that they were still met with ' on the brushy 



Figs. 30, 31. — Head and Foot of Prairie Hen. Natural size. 



plains of Long Island, and in similar sJirnbby barr'ens in 

 Westford, Connecticut' " (Rev. B. Conn, 1877, p. loi). 



In Mr. Allen's List of 1878 (Bull. Essex Inst., x, p. 22) 

 the statement is made of the former commonness of the 



