288 COUES, BIRDS OF NEW ENGLAND. 



Nutt., Man. p.; Aud., Oy\\.V>\o^., i\, p. 490; Aud., 

 B. Am., V, p. 93 ; Gcd^ot, Proc. B^S. N. H., v, p. 154.) 



Nos. 861, 867, $. Illinois. Dr. William Mack, Aug., 1845. 

 No. 862, $ . Illinois. N. Vickary, May, 1860. 



Pedigecetes Columbianus Elliot. — Sharp -tailed 



Grouse. (^P. phasianellus Baircl, iiec Linn.) 



No. 863, ^. Winter. Boston Market. Probably from Illinois. S. 

 Jillson, Jan., 1856. 



Centrocercus urophasianus Swains. — Sage Cock. 



Cock of the Plains. 



No. 95. Colorado Mts., west of Denver City. D. Thompson. From 

 the Chicago Academy of Sciences, 1864,. 



The Wild Turkey, formerly abundant, is now generally 

 believed to be nearly or quite extinct. As long ago as 

 1839, Mr. Peabody tells us, it had become very rare. 

 At the present day it is given by some Massachusetts 

 authorities, and not by others. Mr. Allen "can find no 

 authentic instance of its recent capture in this State, 

 although it has been said to occur wild on Mts. Tom 

 and Holyoke." As Mr. Allen judiciously hints, we must 

 take care not to confound the domesticated Turkey run 

 wild with the true M. gallopavo. The former may always 

 be recognized by the conspicuous whitish tips of the 

 feathers of the rump and upper-tail coverts, which are 

 like those of the M. Mexicana Gould. Mr. Samuels 

 omits the species. Mr. Putnam gives it, but entirely 

 upon the authority of the older writers. It is contained 

 in none of the Maine lists. Mr. Linsley wrote of it in 

 1843, "the last Wild Turkey that I have known in Con- 

 necticut was taken . . . about thirty years since, on 

 Letoket Mountain, in Northford." 



PERDICID^. 



Ortyx Virgihiana Bon. — Quail. — Resident, as far 

 north as Massachusetts. Not very abundant, and appa- 

 rently rapidly becoming less numerous. Not recorded in 

 the Maine lists. 



No. 858, $. Essex Co. 

 No. 857, ?. " " 



Lojphortyx Calif ornicus Bon. — California Plumed 



