884 APPENDIX. 
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COUES KEY, 1884. UNION LIST, 1886. 
562 Pedicecetes phasianellus columbianus. 308a. Pediocetes phasianellus columbianus 
000. {Not admitted in the Key. ] 308). phasianellus campestris. 
563. Cupidonia cupido. 305. Tympanuchus americanus. 
306. cupido. 
563 bis. Add: Cupidonia cupido brewsteri. N. Brewster’s HratH 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 Linneus 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. 
564. Cupidonia cupido pallidicinctus. 307. Tympanuchus pallidicinctus. 
565. Bonasa umbella. 300. Bonasa umbellus. 
000. [Not admitted in the Key. ] 300a. umbellus togata. 
566. Bonasa umbella umbelloides. 3000. umbellus umbelloides. 
567. umbella sabinii. 301e. umbellus sabini. 
568. Lagopus albus. 301. Lagopus lagopus. 
000. [Not admitted in the Key. ] 301a. lagopus alleni.? 
569. Lagopus rupestris. 302. rupestris. 
000. [Not admitted in the Key. ] 302a. rupestris reinhardti. 
000. | Not admitted in the Key.] 3020. rupestris nelsoni. 
000. [Not admitted in the Key.] 302c. repestris atkensis. 
000. [Not admitted in the Key. | 303. welchi. 
570. Lagopus leucurus. 304. leucurus. 
571. Ortyx virginiana. 289. Colinus virginianus. 
572. virginiana floridana. 259a. virginianus floridanus. 
573. virginiana texana. 2890. virginianus texanus. 
000. [Not admitted in the Key.] | 290. graysoni [a mistake |. 
291. ridgwayl. 
573 bis. Add: Ortyx ridgwayi. ArizoNA Bos-wHITE. MaskEp BosB-wHiTE, 
Hoopep 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 scapulars 
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 grayish-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 Tt 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 birdg 
at large would be ornithological anarchy. See Key, p. 568. 
