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riorly into spots; chest tinged with brownish. Downy young: Bright 
buff-yellow, tinged with lemon-yellow, washed on chest and sides with 
pale rusty; a narrow streak behind eye, several irregular spots on crown 
and occiput, stripe across shoulder, and longitudinal blotches down back 
and rump, black. Male: Length about 18.00-19.00, wing 8.60-9.40 
(9.04), tail 4.00-4.30 (4.16). Female: Length about 17.50, wing 8.60-8.75 
(8.65), tail 3.60-4.00 (3.80). Hggs 1.69 x 1.28. Hab. Prairies of Mis- 
sissippi Valley, south to Louisiana and Texas, west to middle Kansas, 
Nebraska, and Dakota, north to Wisconsin, east to Indiana and Kentucky. 
(25.) 305. T. americanus (Retcu.). Prairie Hen. 
bo’. Scapulars with large and very conspicuous terminal spots of buffy whitish ; 
neck-tufts of adult male composed of not more than ten lanceolate, 
pointed feathers. Male: Wing 8.60, tail 4.00. Female: Wing 8.00, tail 
3.90. Hab. Island of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. (Formerly, 
also Long Island, New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, Virginia, etc., but 
now apparently extinct except on Martha’s Vineyard, and there in 
danger of extermination.).......... 306. T. cupido (Linn.). Heath Hen. 
a?. Darker bars of back and rump treble, consisting of a perfectly continuous brown 
bar enclosed between two narrower black bars; darker bars of sides and flanks 
.25, or less, wide, bicoloréd, the broader light brown bar being enclosed be- 
tween two narrower dusky ones; wing less than 8.50 in adult male, usually 
much less than 8.00 in adult female. 
Neck-tufts of adult male with feathers broad and rounded at tips, as in 
T. americanus. Male: Wing 8.20-8.30, tail 4.00-4.20. Female: Wing 
8.00-8.20, tail 3.50-400. Hab. Eastern border of Great Plains, from 
Nebraska (?), southwestern Kansas, southwestern Missouri (?), and 
western part of Indian Territory to western Texas. 
307. T. pallidicinctus Ripaw. Lesser Prairie Hen. 
Genus PEDIOCAETES Bairp. (Page 185, pl. LIX, fig. 2.) 
Species. 
Common Craracters.—Adult male: Above varied with irregular spotting and 
barring of black and brownish ; wing-coverts with large roundish white spots, and 
scapulars streaked medially with same; outer webs of quills spotted with white ; 
beneath white, varied with mostly V-shaped marks of dusky, chiefly on anterior 
and lateral portions. Adult female: Similar to male, but somewhat smaller, and 
with middle tail-feathers shorter. Young: Above brownish, spotted and barred 
with black and conspicuously streaked with white; outer webs of quills spotted 
with white; lower parts dull whitish, the chest, breast, sides, and flanks spotted 
with dusky. Downy young: Bright buffy yellow, the upper parts tinged with light 
rusty and coarsely marbled with black; a small black spot on middle of crown, 
and several larger black markings on occiput and hind-neck, but fore-part of head, 
all round, immaculate. Length 15.00-19.00, wing 8.50—9.00, tail 4.00-5.50. Nest 
