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Pediocetes phasianelhis phasicmellus McLulich, Contr. Roy. Ontario Mus. Zool., 

 No. 13, 1938, 12 (Algonquin Prov. Park, Ontario, hypothetical). 



Pedioecetes phasianellus phasianellus Taverner, Birds Western Canada, 1926, 172 in 

 text, part ; Birds Canada, 1934, 161 in text, part. — American Ornithologists' 

 Union, Check-list, ed. 4, 1931, 86, part (n. Manitoba, n. Ungava).— Bent, U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. Bull. 162, 1932, 285 (habits; descr. ; monogr.). — Peters, Check-list 

 Birds of World, ii, 1934, 40, part. — Snyder, Univ. Toronto Studies, biol. ser., 

 No. 40, 1935, 3, 4, 7, 40 in text (monogr.) ; Occ. Pap. Roy. Ontario Mus. Zool., 

 No. 2, 1935, 3 (monogr.; crit.).— Campbell, Bull. Toledo Mus. Sci., i, 1940, 62 

 (Lucas County, Ohio, introduced in 1939). — Hellmayr and Conover, Cat. Birds 

 Amer., i. No. 1, 1942, 219 (syn., distr.). — Friedmann, Journ. Washington Acad. 

 Sci., xxxiii, 1943, 191 (crit.). 



Pedioecetes phasianellus pJiasiancllus American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, 

 ed. 3, 1910, 144, part. 



Pedioecetes p[hasianellus] phasianellus Dery, Quebec Zool. Soc, Bull. !■, 1933, 3 

 (migr. in Quebec). 



P[edioecetes] p[hasianellus] phasianelliis Snyder, Auk, Ivi, 1939, 184 (distr.). 



[Pedioecetes] phasianellus phasianellus Baillie and Harrington, Contr. Roy. On- 

 tario Mus. Zool., No. 8, pt. 1, 1936, 29 in text (Ontario; breeds in extreme 

 northern part). 



[Pedioecetes phasianellus] phasianellus Dear, Trans. Roy. Can. Inst., xxiii, pt. 1, 

 1940, 127 in text. 



Pedioecetes phasianellus Subsp. a. Pediocaetes columbianus Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., xxii, 1893, 83, part (Hudson's Bay). 



Pedioecetes p[hasianellus] phasianelhis Stenhouse, Scottish Nat., 1930, 76 in text 

 (2 spec, ex Franklin's First Exp. ; from York Factory and from Cumberland 

 House, now in Roy. Scottish Mus.). 



PEDIOECETES PHASIANELLUS JAMESI Lincoln 



Great Plains Sharp-tailed Grouse 



Adult. — Similar to the corresponding sex (and season) of P. p. cauriis 

 but paler above the brownish black areas reduced and more hidden, the 

 buflfy-brown areas larger, paler — buckthorn brown, giving the bird the 

 appearance of a brown bird mottled with blackish, rather than a pre- 

 dominantly blackish bird mottled with brownish; the brown margins of 

 the breast feathers paler — tawny drab, the tarsal plumes relatively shorter, 

 and the chin and upper throat usually without dusky spots. Very worn 

 late spring and early summer birds are very much more grayish above, 

 the buckthorn brown fading to smoke gray with an ochraceous wash. 



Juvenal. — Similar to that of P. p. caurus but with the brownish areas 

 above paler and more grayish — very pale Saccardo's umber, and the 

 top of the head less rufescent — deep ochraceous-tawny (instead of hazel). 



Dozvny young. — Similar to that of P. p. caurus but slightly more ex- 

 tensively tinged with ochraceous-buff above. 



Adult male.—Wmg 199-223 (210.3); tail 111-135 (119.7); culmen 

 from anterior end of nostril 10.9-13.1 (12.1); tarsus 41.1-46 (43.8); 



