256 PINNATED GROUSE. 
PINNATED GROUSE.—TETRAO CUPIDO. — Fic. 124. 
Linn, Syst. i. p. 274-5. — Lath. ii, p. 740. — ‘Aret. Zool.— La’ Gelinote huppée 
d@’Amérique, Briss. Orn. i. p. 212, 10,— Urogalus minor, fuscus cervice, plumis 
alas imitantibus donat&, Catesb. Car. App. pl. 1.—Tetrao lagogus, the Mountain 
Cock, or Grouse, Bartram, p. 290. — Heath-Hen, Prairie Hen, Barren Hen. — 
Peale’s Museum, No. 4700, male ; 4701, female. i 
TETRAO CUPIDO. —Lixnxvs. : : 
Attagan Americana, Brisson, i. p. 59.— Pinnated Heathcock, Bonasa cupido, 
Steph. Sh. Cont. xi. p. 299.— Tetrao cupido, Bonap. Synop. p. 126. 
Berore I enter on a detail of the observations which I have myself. 
personally made on this singular species, I shall lay before the reader 
a comprehensive and very circumstantial memoir on the subject, com- 
municated to me by the writer, Dr. Samuel L. Mitchill, of New York, 
whose exertions, both in his public and private capacity, in behalf of 
science, and in elucidating the natural history of his country, are well 
known, and highly honorable to his distinguished situation and abilities. 
‘That peculiar tract, generally known by the name of the Brushy 
Plains of Long Island, having been, for tine immemorial, the resort 
of the bird now before us, some account of this particular range of 
country seemed necessarily connected with the subject, and: has, ac- 
cordingly, been obligingly attended to by the learned professor. 
: , * oes +“New York, Sept. 19, 1810. 
“Dear Srr,— It gives me much pleasure to reply to your letter of 
the 12th instant, asking of me information concerning the Grouse of 
Long Island. ive ‘ eh : 
“The birds which are known there emphatically by the name of 
Grouse, inhabit chiefly the forest range. This district of the island 
may be estimated as being between forty and fifty miles in length, 
extending from Bethphage, in Queen’s County, to the neighborhood 
of the Court-House, in Suffolk. Its breadth is not more than six or 
seven. For, slthough the island is bounded by the Sound, separating 
it from Connecticut on the north,and by the Atlantic Ocean on the 
south, there is a margin of several miles, on each side, in the actual 
- possession of human beings. ; : Sree 
' «The region in which these birds reside, lies mostly: within the 
towns of Oysterbay, Huntington, Islip, Smithtown, and Brookhaven; 
‘though it would be incorrect to say that they were not to be met with 
sometimes in Riverhead and Southampton. Their territory has been 
defined by some sportsmen, as situated between Hampstead Plain on 
the West, and Shinnecock Plain on the east. : 
“The more popular name for them is Heath-Hens. By this they 
are designated in the act of our Legislature for the preservation of 
them and of other game. I well remember the passing of ‘this law. 
The bill was introduced by Cornelius J. Bogert, Esq., a member of the 
Assembly from the city of New York. It was in the month of Feb- 
