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a wide valley between them and their now amazed and mortified pur- 

 surers. 



The nest of the Wild Turkey ia made on the ground ; the eggs are 

 from ten to fifteen in number, dark-buff or cream color thickly sprinkled 

 with dark umber-brown. They measure about two and a half inches in 

 length by one and three-fourths in breadth. 



FAMILY TETRAONIDiE. GROUSE. 



Size medium. Hind toe shortened, elevated. Tarsi wholly or in great part, sometimes, 

 also, the toes, and always the nasal fosase, feathered. Head completely feathered ex- 

 cepting a definite papillate strip over the eye. Tail feathers sixteen or more. Sides of 

 neck asaally with lengthened feathers, or a naked distensible area, or both. No spurs. 

 PJumage without iridescence. 



Genus CUPIDOSIA. Keichenbaoh. 



Legs feathered to the lower end of tarsaa. Tail very short, truncate, but laterally 

 graduated, half the wings. Sides of neck with long, pointed, or lanceolate, stiff feathers. 

 Nasal fosssB scarcely one-third the oiilmen. 



CUPIDONIA. CUPIDO (L.) Bd. 



nnnated. trrouse; Ir*raipie XdLen. 



Tetrao cupido, Kirtland, Prelim. Rep. Ohio Geolog. Surv., 1833, 67 ; Ohio Geolog. Surr., 



1838, 165. 

 Cupidonia eupido, Wheaton, Ohio Agrio. Rep. for 1860, 367 ; Reprint, 1861, 9, 19 ; Food 



of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1874, 571 ; Reprint, 1875, 11 ; Ball. Nutt. Orn. 



Club, i, 1879, 62. — Langdon, Cat. Birds of Gin., 1877, 13 ; Revised List, Journ. Gin. 



Soo. Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 181 ; Reprint, 15. 



Telrao eupido, LiNNiEUS, Syst. Nat., i, 1766, 274. 

 Cupidonia eupido, Baird, Birds N. Am., 1858, 627. 



Above variegated with black, brown, tawny or ochrey, and white, the latter especially 

 on the wings; below pretty regularly barred with dark brown, white and tawny; throat 



Tetkao canadensis Linnaeus. 



Oanada. G^rollse ; Spruce Partridge. 



Tetrao eanadenais, Kirtland, Ohio Geolog. Surv., 1838, 165. — Wheaton, Ohio Agrio. Re- 

 port for 1860, 1861, 367 (error) ; addenda, 480 (correction) ; Reprint, 21, (probable). 



This bird was named as an Ohio bird by Dr. Kirtland who says : " I have been in- 

 formed that a bird answering the description of the Canada Grouse has been killed on 

 the shores of Lake Erie, but have not been to obtain a specimen or even any very au- 

 thentic account of it." 



The Canada Grouse is resident from Northern New York, northwards. It has been 

 found breeding in Lewis county, by my friend, Dr, C. H. Merriam. It is not probable 

 that it ever visits this State. 



