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Island south along the Atlantic seaboard through New Jersey and eastern 

 Pennsylvania to the Potomac River (Washington, D. C.) and possibly 

 into Virginia and the Carolinas^*; since 1830 confined to the island of 

 Marthas Vineyard, reduced to a single bird in 1932; now extinct. 

 Type locality. — "Virginia" {ex Catesby). 



[Tetrao] cupido Linnaeus, Syst. Nat, ed. 10, i, 17S8, 160 ("Virginia," i.e., Penn- 

 sylvania or New York? based on Urogallus minor, muscus, etc., Catesby, Nat. 

 Hist. Carolina, iii, 1, pi. 1 ; Brisson, Orn., i, 212) ; ed. 12, i, 1766, 274.— Gmelin, 

 Syst. Nat., i, pt. 2, 1788, 751.— Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 638.— Reichen- 

 BACH, Synop. Av., iii, Gallinacae, 1848, pi. 217, fig. 1896-1898. 



Tetrao cupido Wilson, Amer. Orn., iii, 1811, 104, part, pi. 27, fig. 1.— Temminck, 

 Pig. et Gallin., iii, 1815, 161, 703, part.— Vieiixot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., 

 xxxiii, 1819, 448, part (Long Island; New Jersey; Pennsylvania). — Vieillot 

 and OuDART, Gal. Ois., ii, 1825, 55, pi. 219.— Emmons, Cat. Birds Massachusetts, 

 1825, 4.— Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., ii, pt. i, 1826, 126, part; ii, 

 1828, 442, part ; Contr. Maclurean Lye, i, 1827, 23 ; Amer. Philos. Trans., iii, 



1830, 302, part; Geogr. and Comp. List, 1838, 44, part.— Lesson, Traite d'Orn,, 



1831, 500. — NuTTALL, Man. Orn. United States and Canada, Land Birds, 1832, 

 662, part; ed. 2, 1840, 799, part.— Audubon, Orn. Biogr., ii, 1834, 490, part; v, 

 1839, 559, part; Synopsis, 1839, 204 part; Birds Amer., 8vo ed., v, 1842, 93, 

 part. — Peabody, Rep. Orn. Massachusetts, 1839, 355. — Lindsley, Amer. Journ. 

 Sci. and Arts, 1843, 264 (Connecticut).- DeKay, Zool. New York, 1844, 205.- 

 GiRAUD, Birds Long Island, 1844, 195 (Long Island, N. Y. ; nearly extinct ; 

 habits). — Cabot, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, v, 1855, 154 (Long Island). — 

 Putnam, Proc. Essex Inst., i, 1856, 229 (Massachusetts). 



Tetra cupido Bladgen, in Farley, Auk, xl, 1933, 322 in text (Long Island, N. Y., 

 in letter of 1758). 



T[etrao] cupido Bonaparte, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, iv, pt. 2, 1825, 267, 

 part; Obs. Wilson's Orn., 1826, [125], part 



Bonasa cupido Stephens, in Shaw, Gen. Zool., xi, pt. 2, 1819, 299 ("Carolina"; 

 New Jersey ; Long Island). 



Cupidonia cupido Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 628, part (Pocono 

 Mountains, Pa.; Long Island; "Eastern Coast") ; Cat. North Amer. Birds, 1859, 

 No. 464, part. — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, vii, 1861, 291 

 (Long Island). — Samuels, App. Sec. Rep. Orn. Massachusetts, 1864, 11 

 (Marthas Vineyard and Naushon Islands). — Allen, Proc. Essex Inst., iv, 1864, 

 85 (Massachusetts) ; Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, i, 1876, 53 in text (Massachusetts; 

 becoming scarce); Bull. Essex Inst., x, 1878, 22 (Massachusetts; extirpated 

 except on Marthas Vineyard). — CouES, Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1868, 39 part (New 

 England; soon to become extinct); 287 (Massachusetts); Check List North 

 Amer. Birds, 1873, No. 384, part; Birds Northwest, 1874, 419, part (in syn- 

 onymy). — Turnbull, Birds Eastern Pennsylvania and New jersey, 1869, 27 

 (Monroe and Northampton Counties, Pennsylvania; New Jersey plains). — 

 Maynard, Naturalists' Guide, 1870, 138 (Marthas Vineyard at Naushon island, 



" Doubt has been cast on the southern records for this bird, but in all fairness 

 it should be pointed out that no actual specimens exist from any part of its range 

 other than Marthas Vineyard, Nashawena Island, and from Burlington County, 

 N. J. It is only an assumption that the records from the mainland of New England 

 were of this form and not of the inland prairie chicken, but an assumption that 

 has been generally accepted. 



