82 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



307. Tympanuchus pallidicinctus Ridgw. — Lesser Prairie 

 Hex. 



Eastern border of Great Plains, from Nebraska (?), southwestern Kansas, 

 southwestern Missouri (?),and western part of Indian Territory to western Texas 

 (Ridgway); Vermillion, S. Dak.* (Agersborg); a number of years ago several 

 specimens were reported as having been seen in Cuming county near West 

 Point (L. Bruner); Cherry county — breeds (J. M. Bates). Hon. E. K. Valentine, 

 of West Point, just recently told me that in the early fall, 1870, he killed two 

 of these birds, and that H. C. Plimton and Sam Greggory killed one each out of 

 a flock of about a dozen that was found on the west side of the Elkorn river in 

 Cuming county. In the winter of 1871-'72, while at home for holiday vaca- 

 tion, I saw one of these birds in a corn-field just adjoining th« town of West 

 Point (L. Bruner). At about this time B. E. B. Kennedy, of Omaha, reports 

 the killing of several of these birds in Washington county by Henry Homan, 

 of Omaha. Still other birds were killed by George A. Hogland, near West 

 Point, in Cuming county, but on the east side of the Elkhorn river (Notes col- 

 lected by I. S. Trostler). 



Fig. 9. — Prairie Hen ; Pinnatod Grouse. 



308a. Pediocaetes phasinellus columbianus {Ord). — Colum- 

 bian Sharp-tailed Grouse. 



Pine Ridge near Hay Springs (Wm. Waterman); Sioux county, Feb. 24, 

 1896 — several specimens (W. D. Hunter, L. Skow). 



3086. Pediocaetes phasianellus campestris Ridgw.— VukiB.!^ 

 OR Common Sharp-tailed Grouse. 



West Point, Holt county, Harrison, Thedford — breeds (L. Bruner); "For- 

 merly very abundant in Nebraska" (Aughly); " Resident, formerly abundant, 

 becoming rare" (Taylor); "North thruogh western Nebraska" (Bendire); 

 "Plains and prairies east of the Rocky mountains" (Goss); Hay Springs — 

 breeds (Wm. Waterman); Cherry county — breeds (J. M. Bates); Wood River, 



* Specimen shot by Ed. Spatz, Mechling, Clay county. 



