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Genus TYMPANUCHUS, GUger. 

 Tyinpanuchus americanus (ReicJienb.). 



Cupidonia americana, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog, tab. 77. fig. 4 (1855-63). 

 Cupidonia cupido, var. cupido, Baird, Brewer Ridgw. N. Amer. Birds, 



iii. p. 440, part (1874). 

 Tympanuchus americanus, Bendire, Life Hist. N.A. Birds, i. p. 88, pi. ii. 



figs. 18-20 (1892) ; Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxii. p. 78 (1893) ; 



Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 20 (1899). 



The eggs of the Prairie-Hen vary from cream-colour to olive- 

 buff. Some are perfectly unmarked ; others are sprinkled with 

 minute dots and spots of deep reddish brown, chiefly at the small 

 end ; and others again are mottled with streaky spots of pale rufous 

 and brown. They measure from 1'65 to 1'75 in length, and from 

 1-22 to 1-3 in breadth. 



6. Red River Prairie, Canada, 21st N. Amer. Bound. Coumi. 

 June (G. M. Dawson). 



1. N. America (Henshaw Coll.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2. Winnebogo, Illinois ( J. W. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Tolm an: Hen shaiv Coll. ) . 



3. Laid in confinement (Zool. Zool. Society. 



Gardens, London). 



Genus CENTROCERCUS, Swains. 



Centrocercus urophasianus (Bp.). 



Centrocercus urophasianus, Baird, Brewer fy Ridgzu. N. Amer. Birds, 

 iii. p. 429 (1874) ; Bendire, Life Hist. N. A. Birds, i. p. 106, pi. iii. 

 figs. 11-13 (1892); Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxii. p. 81 (1893); 

 Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 20 (1899). 



The eggs of the Sage-Grouse are of a brownish cream-colour 

 or pale greenish stone- col our, marked all over with spots and 

 small blotches of a deep reddish-brown or chocolate colour. They 

 measure from 2-07 to 2-2 in length, and from 1-45 to 1-55 in breadth. 



1. N. America (Smiths. Inst.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



5. Gilmer, Wyoming Territory Salvin-Godman Coll, 



(H. R. Durkee : Hmshaw 



Coll.}. 



Genus PEDICECETES, Baird. 

 Pedicecetes phasianellus (Linn.). 



Pedicecetes phasiauellus, Ross, Nat. Hist. Rev. 1862, p. 283 ; Blakiston, 



Ibis, 1862, p. 8; 1863, p. 124; Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 20 (1899). 

 Pedicecetes phasianellus, var. phasianellus, Baird, Brewer Sf Ridgw. N. 



Amer. Birds, iii. p. 434 (1874). 

 Pedioosetes phasianellus, Nelson, Report Nat. Hist. Alaska, p. 139 (1887) ; 



Bendire, Life Hist. N. A. Birds, i. p. 97, pi. iii. figs. 3-5 (1892) ; Grant, 



Cat. Birds B. M. xxii. p. 82 (1893). 



The eggs of the Northern Sharp-tailed Grouse vary in colour 



