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PINNATED GROUS. 

 TETRAO CUPIDO. 

 [Plate XXVIL— Fig. 1.] 



Linn-. Syst.l, p. 274>, 5. — Lath, lly p. lAO.—Arct. Zool. — La Gelinote hupee d^Amerique, 

 Briss. Orn. I, p. 212 10. — Urogalus minor, fuscus cervice, plumis alas imitantibus donata, 

 Catesb. Car. App. pi. 1 — Tetrao lagogus, the Mountain cock^ or Grous^ Bartram, />. 

 290. — Heath-hen, Prairie hen, Barren-hen. — Pe ale's Museum, N'o. 4700, male — 4701, 

 female. 



BEFORE 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, communicated to me by the writer, Ur. Samuel L. Mitchell 

 of ew York, whose exertions, both in his public and private capa- 

 city, in behalf of science, and in elucidating the natural history of 

 his country, are well known; and highly honorable to his distin- 

 guished situation and abilities. That peculiar tract generally 

 known by the name of the Brushy plains of Long island, having 

 been, for time immemorial, the resort of the bird now before us, 

 some account of this particular range of country seemed necessa- 

 rily connected with the subject, and has accordingly been obliging- 

 ly attended to by the learned professor. 



New York, Sept. 19th, 1 8 10. 



Dear Sir, 



" IT gives me much pleasure to reply to your letter of the 

 twelfth instant, asking of me information concerning the Grouse 

 of Long island. 



" The birds which are known there emphatically by the name 

 of Grouse, inhabit chiefly the forest-range. This district of the 



