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a wide valley between them and their now amazed and mortified pur- 
surers. 
The nest of the Wild Turkey is made on the ground; the eggs are 
from ten to fifteen in number, dark-buff or cream color thickly sprinkled 
with dark umber-brown. They measure about two and a half inches in 
length by one and three-fourths in breadth. 
FAMILY TETRAONIDA. GROUSE. 
Size medium. Hind toe shortened, elevated. Tarsi wholly or in great part, sometimes, 
also, the toes, and always the nasal fossx, feathered. Head completely feathered ex- 
cepting a definite papillate strip over the eye. Tail feathers sixteen or more. Sides of 
neck usually with lengthened feathers, or a naked distensible area, or both. No spurs. 
Plumage without iridescence. 
GENUS CUPIDONIA. Reichenbach. 
Legs feathered to the lower end of tarsus. Tail very short, truncate, but laterally 
graduated, half the wings. Sides of neck with long, pointed, or lanceolate, stiff feathers. 
Nasal fosse scarcely one-third the cnlmen. ; 
CUPIDONIA cUPIDO (L.) Bd. 
Pinnated Grouse; Prairie Hen. 
Tetrao cupido, KIRTLAND, Prelim. Rep. Ohio Geolog. Surv., 1833, 67; Ohio Geolog. Surv., 
1838, 165. 
Cupidonia cupido, WHEATON, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1860, 367; Reprint, 1861, 9, 19; Food 
of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1874, 571; Reprint, 1875, 11; Bull. Nutt. Orn. 
Club, i, 1879, 62.—LANGDON, Cat. Birds of Cin., 1877, 13; Revised List, Journ. Cin. 
Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 181; Reprint, 15. 
Tetrao cupido, LINNZUS, Syst. Nat., i, 1766, 274. 
Cupidonia cupido, BARD, Birds N. Am., 1858, 627. 
Above variegated with black, brown, tawny or ochrey, and white, the latter especially 
on the wings; below pretty regularly barred with dark brown, white and tawny; throat 
TETRAO CANADENSIS Linnzeus. 
Canada Grouse; Spruce Partridge, 
Tetrao canadensis, KIRTLAND, Ohio Geolog. Surv., 1838, 165.—WHEATON, Ohio Agric. Re- 
port for 1860, 1861, 367 (error) ; addenda, 480 (correction) ; Reprint, 21, (probable). 
This bird was named as an Ohio bird by Dr. Kirtland who says: ‘‘I have been in- 
formed that a bird answering the description of the Canada Grouse has been killed on 
the shores of Lake Erie, but have not been to obtain a specimen or even any very au- 
thentic account of it.’”’ 
The Canada Grouse is resident from Northern New York, northwards. It has been 
found breeding in Lewis county, by my friend, Dr. C. H. Merriam. Itis not probable 
that it ever visits this State. 
