CUPIDONIA CUPIDO I PRAIRIE HEN. 147 



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 shrubby barrens in 

 Westford, Connecticut' " (Rev. B. Conn, 1877, p. 101). 



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

 the statement is made of the former commonness of the 



