ORDER GALLIFORMES. 87 



Range. — Southern Alberta and southern Manitoba to Wyoming, eastern 

 Colorado, central Nebraska, eastern South Dakota, Minnesota, and western 

 Wisconsin, formerly to Kansas, western Michigan, and northeastern Illinois. 



Genus CENTROCERCUS Swainson. 



Centrocercus Swainson, in Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor.- 

 Amer., II, 1831 [1832], 358, 496. Type, by oiig. desig., Tetrao uro- 

 phasianus Bonaparte. 



Centrocercus urophasianus (Bonaparte). Sage Hen. [309.] 



Teirao urophasianus Bonaparte, Zool. Journ., Ill, No. 10, April-Sept., 

 1827, 213. (Northwestern countries beyond the Mississippi, especially 

 on the Missouri = North Dakota.) 



Range. — Sagebrush plains of the Transition Zone from middle southern 

 British Columbia (formerly), southern Saskatchewan, and northwestern North 

 Dakota south to middle eastern California, northwestern New Mexico, and 

 northwestern Nebraska. 



Family PERDICIDAE. Partridges and Quails. 



Subfamily PERDICINAE. Old World Partridges. 



Genus PERDIX Brisson. 



Perdix Brisson, Ornith., 1760, I, 26, 219. Type, by tautonymy, Perdix 

 cinerea {Perdix cited in synon.) = Teirao perdix Linnaeus. 



•• Perdix perdix perdix (Linnaeus). European Partridge. [288.1.] 



Tetrao Perdix Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 160. (in Europae 

 agris = southern Sweden.) 



Range. — Southern Sweden, Germany, and the British Isles to France, 

 Switzerland, and the Pyrenees. Introduced in various parts of North America 

 and acclimatized in Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia, also in 

 Wisconsin, Washington, and several other western States. [Closely allied 

 races occur in Spain, Italy, Russia. Siberia, etc.] 



Subfamily ODONTOPHORINAE. American Quails. 



Genus COLINUS Goldfuss. 



Colinus Goldfuss, in Schubert, Handbuch Naturg., Ill, (Zool.) Abth. 

 ii, 1820, 220. Type, by monotypy, Perdix mexicanus, Caille de la 

 Louisiane, PI. Enl. IA9 =Tet7'ao' virginianus Linnaeus. 



