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TETEAONIDJ!. 



Genus TYMPANUCHUS, Gloger. 

 Tympanuchus americanus (Reichenb.). 



Cupidonia americana, Baedeker, Hie)- Bur. Vog. tab. 77. fig. 4 (1865-63). 

 Cupidonia cupido, var. cupido, Baird, Brewer §• Midgw. N. Amer. Birds, 



iii. p. 440, part (1874J. « 



Tympanuchus americanus, Bendire, Life Hist. N. A. Birds, i. p. 88, pi. ii. 



figs. 18-20 (1892) ; Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxii. p. 78 (1893) ; 



Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 20 (1899). 



Tho eggs of the Prairie-Hen vary from cream-oolour to olive- 

 buff. Some are perfectly unmarked ; others are sprinkled ■with 

 minute dots and spots of deep reddish brown, chiefly at the small 

 end ; and others again are mottled with streaky spots of pale rufous 

 and brown. They measure from 1'65 to 1*75 in length, and from 

 1-22 to 1-3 in breadth. 



C. Red River Prairie, Canada, 21st N. Amer. Bound. Comm. 

 June (G. M. Dawson). 



1. N.America (fie?z,sAo!o CoW.). Salvin-Qodman Coll. 



2. Winnebogo, Illinois (J. W. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Tolman: Henshaw Coll.). 



3. Laid in confinement (Zool. Zool. Society. 



Gardens, London). 



Genus CENTEOCERCUS, Swains. 



Centrocercus urophasianus {Bp.). 



Centrocercus urophasianus, Baird, Brewer Sr Ridgw. N. Amer. Birds, 

 iii. p. 429 (1874) ; Bendire, Life Hist. N. A. Birds, i. p. 106, pi. iii. 

 figs. 11-13 (1892; ; Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxii. p. 81 (1893) ; 

 SMrpe, ffand-l. i. p. 20 (1899). 



The eggs of the Sage-Grouse are of a brownish cream-colour 

 or pale greenish stoue-coJour, marked all over with spots and 

 small blotches of a deep reddish-brown or chocolate colour. They 

 measure from 2-07 to 2-2 in length, and from 1-45 to 1-55 in breadth. 



1. N. America (Smiths. Inst.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



6. Gilmer, Wyoming Territory Salvin-Godman Coll, 



(H. a. Lhirkee : Henshaw 



Coll.). 



Genus PEDIffiCETES, Baird. 

 Pedioecetes phasianellus (Linn.), 



Pedioecetes phasianellus, Boss, Nat. Hist. Bev. 1862, p. 283 : Blahiston, 



Ibis, 1862, p. 8 ; ] 863, p. 124 ; Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 20 (1899). • 

 Pedicecetes phasianellus, var. phasianellus, Baird, Brewer & Ridgw. N. 



Amer. Birds, iii, p. 434 (1874). 

 Pediocsstes phasianellus. Nelson, Report Nat. Hist. Alaska, p. 139 (1887) ; 



Bendire, Life Hist. N. A. Birds, i. p. 97, pi. iii. figs. 3-5 (1892) : Grant. 



Cat. Birds B.M. xxii. -p. 82 (1893). 



The eggs of the Northern Sharp-tailed Grouse vary in colour 



