. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. 8n ..8 II. TETRAO CUPIDO. PINNATED GROUSE. [Plat* XXVII. Fiff. 1.] Linn, l^yst. i., p. 274, 5.—Lath, ii., p. 740.—Arct. Zool.—Jm Gelinofehvjip^ed^Amer- ique, Briss. Orn. i., p. '1\Z, 10.— Uroijalua minor, fuscus cervice, pluiiiis imi- tatitihux donata, Catksb. Car, App. pi. 1.— Telrao lagogiis, the Mountain Coek, or Qroute, Bartrah, p. 2y0.—Heath-hen, iS-airie-hen, Barren-hen. Bkfork I enter on a detail of the observations which I have myself personally made on this singular spe
. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. 8n ..8 II. TETRAO CUPIDO. PINNATED GROUSE. [Plat* XXVII. Fiff. 1.] Linn, l^yst. i., p. 274, 5.—Lath, ii., p. 740.—Arct. Zool.—Jm Gelinofehvjip^ed^Amer- ique, Briss. Orn. i., p. '1\Z, 10.— Uroijalua minor, fuscus cervice, pluiiiis imi- tatitihux donata, Catksb. Car, App. pi. 1.— Telrao lagogiis, the Mountain Coek, or Qroute, Bartrah, p. 2y0.—Heath-hen, iS-airie-hen, Barren-hen. Bkfork 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 en the subject, cated to me by the writer, Dr. Samuel L. Mitchill of New York, whose e^certions, both in his public and private capacity, in behalf of science, and in elucidatinf> the natural history of his country, are well known ; and highly honorable to his distinguished situaii'^n and abilities. That peculiar tract generally known by the name of the Brushy Plaiiis of Long Island, having been, for time injmeniorial, the resort of the bird now before us, some account of this particular range of country seeme<l necessarily connected with the subject, and has accordingly been oblig- ingly attended tt v the learned professor. "Nkw York, Sept. 19th, 1810. *' Dear ?Hr, *' It gives me great to reply to your letter of the twelfth instant, asking of me informatioa concerning the Grouse of Long Island. " The birds whit h known there emphatically by the name of Grouse, inhabit fbiefly the forest-range. This <listrict of the island may be estiraat. d as being between forty and fifty miles in length, extending from be^hphage in Queens county to the neighborhood of the court-house in Suffolk. Its breadth is not more than six or seven. For although the island js W'nded by the Sound separating it from Con- necticut •;„ the north, and by the Atlantic
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