140 FRANK SCHLEY'S PARTRIDGE AND PHEASANT SHOOTING. 



PEAIEIE HEN; PEAIEIE CHICKEN; PINNATED 

 (iUOUSE. 



Cupidonia cupido, Var, cupido. BAIRD. 



|P. CHAR Male (10,006, Tremont, Illinois; W. I. 

 Shaw.") Ground-color above ochraceous-brown, ting- 

 ed with grayish ; beneath white, the feathers of the 

 jugulum dark rusty-chestnut beneath the surface. 

 Head most deep buff. Upper parts much broken by broad 

 transverse spots, or irregular bars, of deep black, this 

 color predominating largely over the lighter tints. Pri- 

 maries and tail plain dusky; the former with roundish spots 

 of pale orchraceous on outer webs, the latter very narrowly 

 tipped with white. Lower parts with regular, continuous, 

 sharply defined broad bars, on narrow bands, of clear 

 dusky-brown. A broad stripe of plain brownish-black on 

 side of head, beneath the eye, from rictus to end of auri- 

 culars ; a blotch of the same beneath the middle of the 

 auriculars, and the top of the head mostly blackish, leav- 

 ing a broad superciliary and maxillary stripe, and the 

 whole throat immaculate buff. Neck-tuits [3,50 inches 

 long, deep black; the longer ones uniform, the shorter 

 with only the edge black, the whole middle portion pale 

 buff, shading into deep reddish-rusty next to the black. 

 Wing, 9,00; tail, 4,50; bill, .40 deep, by .50 long, from nos- 

 tril; tarsus, 2,10; middle toe, 1,85. 



Female similar, but with shorter and inconspicuous cer- 

 vical tufts. Young (25,998, Eockford, Illinois; Blackmail.) 

 Above, including tail, yellowish-brown ; feathers with con- 

 spicuous white shaft streaks and large blotches of deep 

 black. Outer webs of primaries with whitish spots. Top 

 of head rusty-brown with a black vertical and a dusky 



