440 NORTH AMKRICjVN lilllDS. 



Species and Varieties. 



C. oupido. Ground-nolor ahovu yoUowish-bi-own, tinged with grayish and 

 reddish ; l)eneath wliilc ; whole upper and lower parts variegated with 

 transverse hands, — those l)eneath regular, l)roa<l, sharply delined, and plain 

 dusky-brown, those," above more broken, bK)a<ler, and deep black. Head 

 bull', with a broad vertieal stripe, a broad one beneath the eye from bill to 

 ears, and a patch on lower side oC auriculars, lirownish-black. 



Tarsi clothed with long hair-like feathers, the bare posterior face 

 entirely hidden. Dark bars aliove, .lid or inor(! in width, dee]) black; 

 those beneath, about .20 wide, and dark brown. Top of head nearly 

 uniformly blackish; face-stripes dusky-black. Bill, .40 deep, ..'jQlong; 

 wing. 9.00. lldh. Prairies of the Mississippi Valley : south to Louisi- 

 ana; formerly eastward to Long Island and Pennsylvania . . var. cupido. 

 Tarsi clothed with .short feathers, the bare posterior face conspicuously 

 exposed. Dark bars above less than .20 in width, dark grayish-l)rown ; 

 those IjoneaMi about .10 wide, and pale grayish-brown. Toj) of head 

 with only a .;light spotting of blackish ; facc-niarkings reddish-brown. 

 IJill, ..'!.-) deep, ."m long, from nostril ; wing, 8.30. Ilah. Southwestern 

 Prairies (Texas y) \w. pallid ici ncltis. 



Cupidonia cupido, var. cupido, Baiud. 



PBAISIE HEN; FBAIBIE CHICKEN; PINNATED OSOUSE. 



Tdrao cupido, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 17.58, IGO. — Cm. I, 751. — L.vril. Iiid. Orn. U, 1790. 



— Wilson, Am. Orn. IH, 1811, 104, jil. .\xvii. — lioN. Mon. Tdnw, Am. Phil. Trans. 

 in, 1830, 392. — XuTTAM., .Mail. \, t)(J2. — All). Drii. Hiog. II, 1834, 490; V, 1839, 

 5u9, pi. I'lxxxvi. — I]i. Birds Aiiii'r. V, 1842, 93, pi. icxoxvi. — Koell, AViogniann's 

 Arihiv, 183(i, i, 1.09. — .^L\.\. Cab. .1. VL 1858, 439. Bonaxn cupido, Stkpiikn.s, 

 Shaw's (!cn. Zoiil. XL 299. — (litAV, Cat. Mrit. .Mus. V, 1867, 88. Cupidonia ameri- 

 cana, Hku'II. Av. Syst. Nat. IS.'iO, i>. xxi.x. — Honap. Comptes Kcndu.s, XLV, 1857, 

 428. Cupidonia cupido, IJAlltn, Birds N. Am. 1858, 628. — Ki.l.ior, P. A. N. .S. 1864. 



— In. MoMog. Tctraoii. pi. — Duksseii, Ibis, 1866, 26 (Brownsville, Texas). — May- 

 NAi!i>, H. E. Mass. 1870, 138 (Martha's Vineyard, and Nau.shon Island, JIass.) 



Sp. Char. Midi' (lO.OOO, Tremont, Illinois; W. I. Shaw). G-round-color above 

 ochraceous-browii, tinged with grayish; beneath white, tlu^ feathers of tliejugulum dark 

 rusty-chestnut beneath the surface;. Ile.ad mostly deep bull'. Upper parts much broken 

 Ijy broad transverse spot.s. or irregular bars, of deep black, this color predominating large- 

 ly over the lighter tints. Primaries and tail ])lain dusky; the former with roundish spots 

 of pale ochraceous on outer web.s, the latter very narrowly tipped with white,'. Lower 

 parts with regular, contiinious, .sharply defined l)road bars, or narrow bands, of clear 

 dusky-l)rown. A broad stripe of plain browni.sh-black on side of head, beneath the 

 eye. from rictus to end of aiu'iculars; a blotch of the same beneath the midiUe of the 

 auriculai's, and the tof) of the head mostly blackish, leaving a liroad superciliary and 

 maxillary stripe, and the whole throat immaculate Imff. Neck-tufts 3.50 inches long, deep 

 lilack ; th(> iongi'r one's uniform, the .sliorte'r with only the edge black, the whole middle 

 portion ])ale bull', shaeling into elee]) reddish-rusty next to the black. Wing, 9.00 ; tail, 

 4.50; liill, .40 deej) by .50 long, from nostril; tarsus, 2.10; midelle too, 1.85. Female 

 similar, but with .shorteT anil ine'onspiciious e;ervieal tufts. Yoiini/ (25,098, Rorkford, 

 Illinois ; Blacknian). Above, ine;liiding tail, ycUowisli-tirown ; featlu'rs with conspicuous 

 white shaft-streaks and large blotches of deep black. Outer webs eif primaries with 



