ORDER GALLING. 175 



GENUS TYMPANUCHUS GLOGER. 



Tympanuchus "GLOGER, 1842," fide SUNDEV. Met. Nat. Av. Disp. 

 1874, 114. Type, Tetrao cupido LINN. 



305. Tympanuchus americanus (REICH.). 



Prairie Hen. 



Cupidonia americanus REICH. Syst. Av. 1852, p. xxix. ; based on 



Vollst. Naturg. Hiihnen., pi. 217, figs. 1896-1898. 

 Tympanuchus cupido americanus RIDGW. MS. 



[464,0384, R 47 7, C 563.] 



HAB. Prairies of the Mississippi Valley, south to Louisiana, east 

 to Kentucky and Indiana. 



306. Tympanuchus cupido (LINN.). 



Heath Hen. 



Tetrao cupido LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 160. 



Tympanuchus cupido RIDGW. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. VIII. 1885, 355. 



[B 464, part, C 384, part, R 477, /^> c S^Si />*] 

 HAB. Island of Martha's Vineyard, Mass. 



307. Tympanuchus pallidicinctus (RIDGW.). 



Lesser Prairie Hen. 



Cupidonia cupido var. pallidicincta RIDGW. Bull. Essex Inst. V. Dec. 



1873, 199- 

 Tympanuchus pallidicinctus RIDGW. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. VIII. 



1885, 355. 



[B , 384*, R 477 , C 564.] 

 HAB. Eastern edge of the Great Plains, from Texas northward. 



GENUS FEDIOC.2ETES BAIRD. 



Pediocates BAIRD, B. N. Am. 1858, 625. Type, Tetrao phasianellus 

 LINN 



