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SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. — GALLING — ALECTOBOPODES. 



in open country, fi'om the Atlantic to the Eastern foot-hills of the K. Mts., in some latitudes, 

 and now abounds on the prairies, from Illinois and Wisconsin, to Middle Kansas at least, if not 

 found on the dryer plains westward. Its usual rauge iucludes Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Eastern 

 half of Minnesota, Soutlieastern Dakota, Middle and Eastern Kansas and Xehraska, Arkansas, 



and Eastern Texas. It is creeping westward 

 with the grain fields. Ten years ago it mixed 

 VA'itli the sharp-tails about St. Paul's, Minne- 

 sota, and up the Missouri to beyond Sioux 

 ^Y ^' ? '^'^^^^^^^Sr-^ City. The line of railroad is a favorite high- 



way for the birds. It has been almost ex- 

 ^*?^>==5^^£:^Bfe tirpated in tlie Middle and Eastern States, 



— — -T -~ _i5,~— 1— . though it still occurs sparingly in isolated 



-^_, ^' 'l — ~"^^^^ ^^^K. localities in New York, New Jersey, Penn- 

 tS "' ^ ^^Si^^^^*^ sylvania, Long Island, Nantucket, and Mar- 

 t-* • -'* tha's Vineyard, etc. Its abundance, and the 



excellence of its tiesh, render it an object of 

 Fig. 401. — Head of KuffeJ Grouse, nat. size. (Ad commercial importance. Though there may 

 nat. del.E. C.) ^^ kittle probability of its extinction, legisla- 



tion against its wauton or ill-timed destruction is a measure of obvious propriety. Eggs 

 averaging shorter, rounder, and smaller tlian those of the sharp-tail; pale greenish-gray, with 

 sometimes a glaucous bloom, usually unmarked, sometimes very minutely dotted with bro^vn 

 564. C. c. paHidlcinc'ta. (Lat. paUidus, pale ; cinctus, begirt.) Pale Pinnated Grouse. 

 Above, the dark markings not in excess of the lighter markings, and rather brown than black ; 

 below, the dark bars very pale and narrow. Tarsi scant feathered, exposing the bare strip 

 behind. Southwestern prairies ; a local race, from warmer and dryer regions. 

 208. BONA'SA. (Gr. /Sorao-or, 

 Lat. bonasus, a bison : the 

 ' ' drumming " of the bird 



being likened to the bel- _^^ 



lowing of a bull.) Ruffed ^£^^^" '"^''i^'.^aB- i 



Grouse. Head with a .i.i:,|-|M|L A — \ I't 



full soft crest. Nook on y flHHl^HHi^^^^^^^^K.v'^'/ ( i ^ 



each side with a tuft of J ^^^SHHSMHB^^^^^^K^'T' '^ 



numerous (15-30) broad 



soft glossy-black feathers, , ^^J\^ " \ 



covering the rudimentary a "(^^i^fef a ''^^^SSf ^K^SS^BBf^W^ /''/St? 



tympanum. Tail about as ^^,^^^^^- ^^^^^^^^^^K^/ W iM 



long as the wings, amply ^^^o|^§^^^^^^^^^^''^%i;''/iii 



rounded or fan-shaped, nor- 1 HP ,^SHB^H|^SMn& .i ""^^fflJSSf^b] ^ 'A\fiw 



maUy of 18 soft Itroad MiMilHHHB^PW'^,i)r*'#''^^^^^^Or'N 



feathers, with truncate 'd i1ff^^HK1iP""'!!p""~ ' """"^J^^^iS* ^W!^%^^ 



ends. Tarsi scantfeath- TOI|Kr" "' ^ffliSS*^P«y»att3-j»«'^ ^- 



ered, naked below, with „, '^i'^'.^ 'Si^ '\/-^'-.-^\.~v^ )itMliSB!3HftiJli.i«*.i; 



two or three rows of sou- **,, i.,i f^ r''?0^rPii>>^jv ;,« w*\ 



teila m fi-ont. Plumage of 



blended and varied colors ; ^'°- ^"^^ - ^''^^<^ «■"<>"«<'■ '-^'^"'^ I-"™-) 



sexes alike. Woodland species, more or loss arboreal, of common occurrence in suitable places. 



Analysis of Varieties. 



Brown, of mixed flnd varied uliades of recMiali and gray. Eastern and Nortliern vmhella £565 



Pale ; slaty-gray tlie prevailing shade. Rocky Mountain region innbcUnixJes 5(i6 



Dark; chestnut-brown the prevailing shade. Pacific Coast region sahinii 567 



