. Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds. Birds; Birds; 1887. TETBA ONIB^ â TETBA ONIN^: GEO USE. 583. FiG. 399. â Foot of Prairie Hen, nat, size. (Ad nat. del. EC.) overlap to some extent. Fonnerly ranged in all the prairi
. Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds. Birds; Birds; 1887. TETBA ONIB^ â TETBA ONIN^: GEO USE. 583. FiG. 399. â Foot of Prairie Hen, nat, size. (Ad nat. del. EC.) overlap to some extent. Fonnerly ranged in all the prairie of Minnesota, Michigan, and Iowa, but is pushed westward by the grain-fields â the same carrying cupido along. Eggs 5-10-1'i- 13, in June; grayish-olive or drab-colored, uniformly dotted with brown points, rarely larger than a pin-head; always quite difl'erent from those oicupido; to long by to br(5ad; average A fine game and table bird, in aU respects like cupido. 207. CUPIDO'NIA. (Name derived from cupido, which see below.) Pin-negk Grouse. Neck with a peculiar tuft on each side of loose, lengthened, acuminate feathers, like little wings beneath which is a circular patch of bare, yellow skin, capable of great distension, like the half fif a small or- auge. Plead with a .flight soft crest. Tarsi scant-feath- ered to the toes in front and on sides, bare on a strip behind; toes extensively webbed at base. Tail short, rounded, of 18 broad stilEsh feathers, with obtusely rounded ends. Sexes nearly alike in size, form, and color; plumage below barred transversely. One species, 2 varieties, of prairie, perfectly terrestrial. Analysis of Varieties. The Common bird. Tarsal feathers hiding the bare strip. Dark bars above black, and broad; top ot head mostly blackish _ ciuililo Si- Texas BIRD. Tarsi very scant-feathered, the bare strip exposed. Dark bars above brown and narr.)w; top of head little blackish pallidicinctus 664 563. C. cupl'do. (The tuft
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