TEMPERATE AMERICA. — BIRDS. 65 
*< barren grounds” of Kentucky, and in a few other 
districts: one of these is the Tetrao umbellus, or ruffled 
grouse; called, in America, the 
pheasant. It has an extensive 
northerly range, and was met with 
by Dr. Richardson. The other 
is the Tetrao Cupido, or pinnated 
grouse (fig. 22.) ; so called from 
two tufts of pointed feathers on 
the side of the neck, resembling 
the wings of a little Cupid, and 
tien ia which cover a naked skin, in- 
flated like a ball during the season of courtship. There 
is a small-sized partridge, called by the natives, with 
equal impropriety, a quail. ‘To compensate, however, 
for this deficiency of feathered game, the Americans 
can boast of the native wild turkey, a bird so truly 
valuable, that, as Dr. Franklin well observes, it would 
have been a much fitter emblem of their country than 
the white-headed eagle ; “‘a lazy, cowardly, tyrannical 
bird, living on the honest labours of others, and more 
suited to represent an imperial despotic government than 
the republic of America.” However this may be, the 
turkey is entitled to the nobility of the farm-yard. 
Cultivation and population have had their usual effect 
on large animals, and have driven the wild turkeys 
from many of their former haunts; yet they are still 
to be found, in large flocks, in the back settlements of 
Louisiana, and in a few other states. 
(92.) The aquatic orders, among themselves, show 
a very different disposition. Few of the wading birds 
resemble those of Europe, and even the snipe and wood- 
cock are distinct from ours. The golden plover is the 
same; but all the rest, with the curlews, most of the 
sandpipers, together with the coot and the water-hen, 
are not only peculiar to America, but very few have 
been found to the south of the line. The American 
flamingo (fig. 23.), fully as tall as the European, is of 
a much more beautiful and intense scarlet ; while the 
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