ORDER GALLING. II5 



Genus TYMPANUCHUS Gloger. 



Tympanuchus Gloger, Gemeinnutzig. Hand, und Hilfsbuch 

 Naturg. 1842, 396. Type, Tetrao cupido Linn. 



305. Tympanuchus americanus (Reich.). 



Prairie Hen, 



Cupidonia americanus Reich. Syst Av. 1852, p. xxix ; based on 



Vollst. Naturg. Huhnen. pi. 217, figs. 1896-1898. 

 Tympanuchus americanus Ridgw. Auk, Jan. III. 1886, 133. 



[B 464, C 384, R 477, C 563.] 



Geog. Dist. — Prairies of the Mississippi Valley ; south to Louisi- 

 ana and Texas, east to Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, and 

 Ontario ; west through eastern portions of North Dakota, South 

 Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and the Indian Territory ; north to Man- 

 itoba ; general tendency to extension of range westward and con- 

 traction eastward ; migration north and south in Minnesota, Iowa, 

 and Missouri. 



305 a. Tympanuchus americanus attwateri (Bendire). 

 Attwater's Prairie Hen. 



Tympanuchus attwateri 'B^inTiiKE., Forest and Stream, XL. No. 20, 



May 18, 1893, 425. 

 Tympanuchus americanus attwateri A. O. U. Check-List, 6th Suppl. 



Auk, XL April, 1894, 130. 



[B 464, /ar/, C 2,%/^, part, R j^ii,part, C 563, /ar/.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Coast region of Louisiana and Texas. 



306. Tympanuchus cupido (Linn.). 



Heath Hen. 



Tetrao cupido Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 160. 

 Tympanuchus cupido Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. VIII. 1885, 

 355- 

 [B /ifi/^,part, C 2S4.,part, R 4.'j'j,part, C ^6^ part.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Island of Martha's Vineyard, Mass. (Formerly 

 southern New England and parts of the Middle States.) 



