Prairie Hens
| 305. Prairie Hen (Tympanuchus americanus). L. 18. Underparts with distinct brown and white bars of about equal width. Ad. ♂. A neck-tuft of ten or more rounded feathers. Ad. ♀. Neck-tufts much smaller; whole tail barred. Notes. Song, a loud "booming." Range.—"Prairies of Mississippi Valley; south to Louisiana and Texas; east to Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and Ontario; west through eastern portions of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Indian Territory; north to Manitoba; general tendency to extension of range westward and contraction eastward; migration north and south in Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri." (A. O. U.) 305a. Attwater Prairie Hen (T. a. attwateri). Similar to [No. 305>], but smaller and darker; neck-tufts proportionately wide; tarsus not fully feathered. Range.—Southwestern Louisiana and eastern Texas. 306. Heath Hen (Tympanuchus cupido). Similar to No. 305, but smaller; scapulars more broadly tipped with buff; neck-tuft of less than ten feathers; obtusely pointed; axillars barred with dusky. Range.—Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. 307. Lesser Prairie Hen (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus). Similar to [No. 305>], but smaller, more buffy above; brown bars below narrower than whitish spaces between them. Notes. Doubtless the same as those of [No. 305]. Range.—Southwestern parts of Kansas and western Indian Territory, western (and southern?) Texas. (Bendire.) 308. Sharp-tailed Grouse (Pediœcetes phasianellus). L. 17. Breast feathers with internal V shaped loops; no neck-tufts. Ads. Prevailing color above black; narrowly barred with rusty and margined with paler. Range—Interior of British America, east to Rocky Mountains, about James Bay (Moose Factory) and the west shore of Hudson Bay, northern Manitoba, north at least to Fort Simpson, Mackenzie River, northwest territory. (Bendire.) 308a. Columbian Sharp-tailed Grouse (P. p. columbianus). Similar to [No. 308], but prevailing color above buffy. Range.—"Northwest United States; south to northeastern California, northern Nevada and Utah; east to Montana and Wyoming, west to Oregon and Washington; north, chiefly west of Rocky Mountains, through British Columbia to central Alaska (Fort Yukon)" (Bendire.) 308b. Prairie Sharp-tailed Grouse (P. p. campestris). Similar to [No. 308a], but more rusty. Notes. Song, a bubbling crow, a rattling of tail-feathers, and stamping of feet. Calls, when disturbed, cack, cack, cack; a soft clear whistle and a grunt of alarm. (Seton.) Call of mother to young and of young in reply a guttural, raucous croak. (Grinnell.) Range—"Plains and prairies of United States, north to Manitoba; east to Wisconsin and northern Illinois; west to eastern Colorado; south to eastern New Mexico." (Bendire.) |
Grouse, Turkeys and Chachalaca
| 309. Sage Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus). Ad. ♂, L. 29; Ad. ♀, L. 22. Similar to ♂, but smaller, throat whiter; breast barred black and whitish. Notes. When courting, low, grunting, guttural sounds; when alarmed, a sort of cackle, käk, käk. (Bendire.) Range.—"Sage regions of the Rocky Mountain Plateau, and west chiefly within the United States, but north to Assiniboia and the dry interior of British Columbia; east to North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Colorado; south to northern New Mexico, Utah and Nevada; west in California, Oregon and Washington, to the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Range." (A. O. U.) Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus × P. colchicus). An introduced species, see [remarks on page 114]. 310. Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris). ♂ Ad. L. about 48; upper tail-coverts and tail tipped with rusty chestnut: white bars in primaries entire, crossing the webs of the feathers. Notes. Similar to those of the domesticated Turkey. Range.—Eastern United States from Pennsylvania south to central Florida; west to Nebraska and northeastern Texas. 310a. Merriam Turkey (M. g. merriami). Similar to [No. 310], but tail and upper tail-coverts tipped with whitish. Range.—"Mountains of southern Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and western Texas; and northern Chihuahua and Sonora, Mexico." (Bailey.) 310b. Florida Wild Turkey (M. g. osceola). Similar to [No. 310], but smaller; primaries with narrow broken bars not reaching across feather. Range.—Southern Florida. 310c. Rio Grande Turkey (M. g. intermedia). Tips of upper tail-coverts and of tail rusty buff intermediate in color between those of Nos. [310] and [310a]. Range.—"Lowlands of southern Texas and northeastern Mexico." (A. O. U.) 311. Chachalaca (Ortalis vetula maccalli). L. 21. Ads. Above olive-brown; tail blacker, all but middle-feathers bordered with whitish; belly brownish. Notes. A loud, trumpeting cha-cha-laca, repeated a number of times. Range.—Tropical portions of eastern Mexico, from Vera Cruz north to Lower Rio Grande Valley. |
Order XI. PIGEONS AND DOVES.
COLUMBÆ.
| Family 1. | PIGEONS and DOVES. | Columbidæ. | 13 species, 3 subspecies. |