. New England bird life; being a manual of New England ornithology: ed. from the manuscript of Winfrid A. Stearns . Birds. CUPIDONIA CUPIDO : PRAIRIE HEN. 147 was seen in Connecticut, for even Linsley, in 1842, gave it as a bird of the past. Nuttall, ten years earlier (in 1832), said that they were still met with ' on the brushy. Figs. 30, 31. —Head and Foot of Prairie Hen. Natural size. plains of Long Island, a^id in similar shrubby barrens in Westford, Connecticut' " (Rev. B. Conn, 1877, p. loi). In Mr. Allen's List of 1878 (Bull. Essex Inst., x, p. 22) the statement is made of
. New England bird life; being a manual of New England ornithology: ed. from the manuscript of Winfrid A. Stearns . Birds. CUPIDONIA CUPIDO : PRAIRIE HEN. 147 was seen in Connecticut, for even Linsley, in 1842, gave it as a bird of the past. Nuttall, ten years earlier (in 1832), said that they were still met with ' on the brushy. Figs. 30, 31. —Head and Foot of Prairie Hen. Natural size. plains of Long Island, a^id in similar shrubby barrens in Westford, Connecticut' " (Rev. B. Conn, 1877, p. loi). In Mr. Allen's List of 1878 (Bull. Essex Inst., x, p. 22) the statement is made of the former commonness of the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Stearns, Winfrid Alden, 1852-; Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899. Boston, Lee and Shepard; New York, C. T. Dillingham
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