THE HEATH HEN 9 



this gentleman finds plenty of food in his shel- 

 ter, and sits in comfort, "at ease in his own 

 inn." 



The Franklin's Grouse, before mentioned, is 

 very near to this typical bird, the main differ- 

 ence being the lack of the terminal spots of 

 orange in the tail of the male; in his case the 

 tail is either plain black or narrowly tipped 

 with white, and the tips of the upper tail cov- 

 erts in both male and female are white. The 

 lady also has whitish instead of orange tips to 

 the tail feathers. If otherwise different there 

 is rather less of white in the rest of the plumage 

 of this than in the common species. 



In choice of food, habits and mode of life the 

 two species are in perfect accord. 



THE HEATH HEN 



(Tympanuchus cupido.) 



It is probable that in former times the 

 Prairie Chicken flourished in many places 

 suitable for its occupancy from the Atlantic to 

 its present home, but now the broken and scat- 

 tered remnants of those once thriving communi- 

 ties are to be found only in very small num- 



