THE HEATH HEN 9 
this gentleman finds plenty of food in his shel- 
ter, and sits in comfort, ‘‘at ease in his own 
inn.”’ 
The Franklin’s Grouse, before mentioned, is 
very near to this typical bird, the main differ- 
ence being the lack of the terminal spots of 
orange in the tail of the male; in his case the 
tail is either plain black or narrowly tipped 
with white, and the tips of the upper tail cov- 
erts in both male and female are white. The 
lady also has whitish instead of orange tips to 
the tail feathers. If otherwise different there 
is rather less of white in the rest of the plumage 
of this than in the common species. 
In choice of food, habits and mode of life the 
two species are in perfect accord. 
THE HEATH HEN 
(Tympanuchus cupido.) 
It is probable that in former times the 
Prairie Chicken flourished in many places 
suitable for its occupancy from the Atlantic to 
its present home, but now the broken and scat- 
tered remnants of those once thriving communi- 
ties are to be found only in very small num- 
