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PINNATED GROUSE. 
PINNATED GROUSE TETRAO CUPIDO. 
Plate XXVII. Fig. 1. 
Linn. Syst. i. p. 274-5 Lath. ii. p. 740 Arct. Zool. — La Gelinote hirppee 
d’Am&ique, 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 Grouse, Bartram, p. 290. — Heath Hen, Prairie Hen, Barren Hen. — 
Peak's Museum, No. 4700, male; 4701, female. 
TETRAO CUPIDO. — LiNNasus. 
Attagan Americana, Brisson, i. p. 59 Pinnated Heathcock, Bonasa cupido, Steph. 
Sh. Cont. xi. p. 299 — Tetrao cupido, Bonap. Synop. p. 126. 
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, 
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 honourable to his distinguished 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 necessarily 
connected with the subject, and has, accordingly, been 
obligingly attended to by the learned professor. 
44 New York , Sept 19, 1810. 
44 Dear Sir, — It gives me much pleasure to reply to your 
letter of the 12th instant, asking of me information concerning 
the Grouse of Long Island. 
44 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 neighbourhood of the court-house, in 
