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^1.1 u MIDDLE AMERICA 219 



fugio County, Tex.).— Simmons, Auk, xxxii, 191S, 322 (Harris County, Tex.; 

 Aldine; adults and young seen); Birds Austin Region, 1925, 82 (Austin, Tex.; 

 habits; descr.).— Cahn, Wils. Bull., xxxiii, 1921, 171 (near Marshall, ne. Texas; 

 nearly extirpated). — Figgins, Auk, xl, 1923, 674 (Black Bayou, La.; rare; 

 winter and spring). — GsiscoM and Crosby, Auk, xliii, 1926, 34 (Brownsville, 

 Tex.).— Bailey and Wright, Wils. Bull., xliii, 1931, 201 (Cameron Parish, 

 La.). — Arthur, Birds Louisiana, 1931, 214 (descr., status, Louisiana). 

 T[ympanuchus] americamis attwateri Beyer, Aixison, and Kopman, Auk, xxv, 1908, 



439, in text (w. Louisiana). 

 T{ympanuchv,s] a[merkanus] attwateri Bailey, Handb. Birds ^^'estern United 



States, 1902, 131 (descr.; habits). 

 [Tympanufhus afiiericanus] atlwateri Dwight, Auk, xvii, 1900, 163 (molt). 

 Tympanuchus cupido attwateri American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list North 

 Amer. Birds, ed. 4, 1931, 86 (distr.).— Bent, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 162, 1932, 263 

 (life hist.; distr.).— Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 41.— Ober- 

 holser. Bird Life Louisiana, 1938, 190 (Louisiana, common on coastal prairies 

 formerly; now rare). — Hellmayr and Conover, Cat Birds Amer., i, No. 1, 1942, 

 223 (syn. ; distr.). — McIlhenny, Auk, Ix, 1943, 544 (s. Louisiana). 

 Tlympatiachus] c[upido] attii-ateri Hamerstrom, Wils. Bull., li, 1939, 115, in text 



(nesting habits). 

 Tympanuchus cupido americanus Lowery, Bull. Louisiana Polytech. Inst., xxix, 1931, 



22 (spec. ; ne. of Ruston, La. ; December 20, 1925). 

 Tympanuchus americanus (not Cupidonia americana Reichenbach) Beyer, Proc. 

 Louisiana Soc. Nat. for 1897-99 (1900), 98 (sw. Louisiana). 



TYMPANUCHUS PALLIDICINCTUS (Ridgfway) 



Lesser Prairie Hen 



Adult male. — Similar to Tympanuchus cupido hwt differs in having the 

 darker bars of the back and rump divided, containing a continuous brown 

 bar enclosed between two narrower blackish ones ; the feathers of the 

 breast with four to six alternate bars of brown and white ; the darker bars 

 of the sides and flanks bicolored — the broader light brown bar being 

 enclosed between two narrower dusky ones; forehead and anterior part 

 of crown pale cartridge buff, the feathers mummy brown on their con- 

 cealed basal portions ; rest of crown feathers dark mummy brown broadly 

 tipped with cartridge buff to light ochraceous-buff and subterminally 

 banded with light ochraceous-salmon and still more basally spotted with 

 the same ; occiput and nape similar but with the dark mummy brown areas 

 reduced to narrow bars, the tips more strongly ochraceous ; interscapulars, 

 back, lower back, rump, and upper tail coverts buffy brown to pale olive- 

 brown narrowly banded with pinkish buff to cinnamon-buff and with 

 dark clove brown to fuscous-black, the subterminal fuscous-black bars 

 divided lengthwise to include a continuous pale olive-brown to pale 

 cinnamon-buffy band bordered by narrower fuscous-black ones ; the tips 

 of these feathers becoming somewhat more grayish on the lower rump 

 and upper tail coverts; scapulars, lesser upper wing coverts, and sec- 

 ondaries tawny-olive to olive-brown barred with pinkish buff to whitish, 



