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Dendragapus obscurus richardsoni (Douglas). Richardson's Grouse. 



[2976.] 



Tetrao Richardsomi "Sabine," Douglas, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., XVI, 

 Pt. i, 1829, 141 (read Dec. 16, 1828). (Rocky Mountains, lat. 52° N., 

 long. 115° W.; more numerous in Columbia River region, lat. 48° N., 

 long. 118° VV. = Jasper House, Alberta.) 



Range. — Rocky Mountains from central British Columbia and western 

 Alberta to eastern Oregon, south-central Idaho, and Wyoming. 



Dendragapus obscurus flemingi Taverner. Fleming's Grouse. [297(i.] 



Dendragapus obscurus flemingi Taverner, Auk, XXXI, No. 3, July 

 [June 29], 1914, 385. (Near Teslin Lake, Yukon Territory.) 



Range. — Northern British Columbia, southern Yukon Territory, and south- 

 western Mackenzie. 



Dendragapus fuliginosus fiiliginosus (Ridgway). Sooty Grouse. [297a.] 



Canace obscura var. fidiginosa Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., V, No. 12, Dec, 

 1873, 199. (Cascade Mountains, Chiloweyuck Depot, Washington 

 Ter., foot of Mt. Hood, Oregon =Mt. Hood.) 



Range. — Northwest coast mountains from Alaska (Skagway) and southern 

 Yukon to Oregon and northwestern California. 



Dendragapus fuliginosus sitkensis Swarth. Sitka Grouse. [297e.] 



Dendragapus obscurus sitkensis Swarth, Condor, XXIII, No. 2, March 

 31, 1921, 59. (Kupreanof Island, southern end of Keku Straits, south- 

 eastern Alaska.) 



Range. — Islands of the southeastern Alaskan coast (except Prince of Wales 

 Island), Queen Charlotte Islands, and Porcher Island. 



Dendragapus fuliginosus sierrae Chapman. Sierra Grouse. [297c.] 



Dendragapus obscurus sierrx Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XX, 

 Art. 11, April 25, 1904, 159. (Echo, El Dorado Co., California.) 



Range. — Central southern Washington to Fort Klamath, Oregon, and 

 south in California along the Sierra Nevada to about lat. 36 and on the inner 

 side of the Coast Range to Mt. Sanhedrin. 



Dendragapus fuliginosus howardi Dickey and van Rossem. Mount Pinos 

 Grouse. [297/.] 



Dendragapus obscurus howardi Dickey and van Rossem, Condor, XXV, 

 No. 5, Oct. 3, 1923, 168. (Mount Pinos, Kern Co., California.) 



Range. — Mt. Pinos, southern California, east through the Tehachapi 

 Range and north in the Sierra Nevada to about lat. 36°. 



