. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush . mer-ica south to the Gulf of , has in winterthe outer tail feathersblackish, generally tippedwith white, and the loresblack, while the rest of theplumage is pure white. Insummer it has mottled and barred grayish plumage with almost no Ptarmigan (30o. LiKjopus tcelrhi), of Newfoundland, has in win-ter the wlu)le tail blackish, except the white tips of the central feathers,and the lores black, while the rest of the plumage is white. In .summerthe
. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush . mer-ica south to the Gulf of , has in winterthe outer tail feathersblackish, generally tippedwith white, and the loresblack, while the rest of theplumage is pure white. Insummer it has mottled and barred grayish plumage with almost no Ptarmigan (30o. LiKjopus tcelrhi), of Newfoundland, has in win-ter the wlu)le tail blackish, except the white tips of the central feathers,and the lores black, while the rest of the plumage is white. In .summerthe upper parts are black with wavy lines of buff and white, and thebelly white. Probably none but the Willow Ptarmigan has ever beenfound ill the United States. 8. Prairie Hen (305. TymjjanhcJius CDnericcinus). — A large,ground-living, short-tailed, very mvich mottled, brownish, some-what crested grouse,with a tuft of ten ormore, narrow, stiff-ened, mottled, blackfeathers on the sideof the neck, underAvhich there is apatch of bare, inflat-able, yellow peculiar neckfeathers have theirPrairie Hen tips rounded, and. APGARS BIRDS. 15 22G KEY AND DESCRIPTION the rounded, blackish tail is white tipped. The female has theneck tufts much smaller. This is a bird of the open prairies,rarely found, except during severe storms, within timberedtracts. (Pinnated Grouse; Prairie Chicken.) Length, 17-19 ; wing, 9 (8J-9J); tail, 4 ; tarsus, 2 ; culnien, |. Prairiesof the \alley, south to , to Ohio, north toOntario, anil west to Nebraska. The Heath Hen (oOii. Tympaniichuscupido), of Martiias Vineyard (formerly New England and .Middle Stales),differs from tlie last in that the neck tufts consist of less than ten pointedfeathers. There are but few (less than lUU) of these birds left on theisland. 9. Lesser Prairie Hen (307. TympanuchxisjJcdlidicinctnii). — Asouthwestern bird similar to the common prairie hen in dimen-sions of parts, but paler and browner in
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