BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 195 



middle toe without claw 37.5-41.8 (39.8) ; height of bill at base 12.5- 

 13.0 (12.7 mm.). 98 



Adult female.— Wing 195-208 (201.2) ; tail 113-126 (117.3) ; culmen 

 from anterior end of nostril 10.1-11.9 (11.3) ; tarsus 40.0-44.4 (42.8) ; 

 middle toe without claw 36.3^0.5 (38.3) ; height of bill at base 12.2-13.1 

 (12.4 mm.). 9*^ 



Range. — Resident in the Hudson and James Bay watersheds of north- 

 eastern Manitoba (Norway House) northern Ontario and Quebec. 



Type locality. — Canadarr: Hudson Bay. 



Tctrao phasianellus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 160 (based on Urogallus 

 minor foemina cauda longiore, Canadensis, Long-tailed grouse from Hudson's 

 Bay, Edwards, Nat. Hist., iii, pi. 117) ; ed. 12, i, 1766, 273.— Forster, Philos. 

 Trans., Ixii, 1772, 394, 425 (Hudson Bay).— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 2, 1788, 

 747, part. — Latham, Index Ornith., in 1790, 635, part. — Ord, in Guthrie's Geogr., 

 2d Amer. ed., ii, 1815, 317. — Sabine, Append. Franklin's Journ., 1823, 681, part. 

 —Bonaparte, Syn., 1828, 127, part ; Amer. Orn., ii, 1828, 37, part.— Wilson and 

 Bonaparte, Amer. Orn., iii, 1832, 303, pi. 19. — Nuttall, Man. Orn. United States 

 and Canada, Land Birds, 1832, 669, part. — Audubon, Orn. Biogr., iv, 1838, 539, pi. 

 382, part; Birds Amer., 8vo ed., v, 1842, 110, pi. 298, part.— Murray, Proc. Phys. 

 Soc. Edinb., ii, 1859, 49 (Troutlake Station). 



Tctrao [Cenlrocercus] phasianellus Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Amer., 

 ii, 1831 (1832), 361, part. 



Cenlrocercus phasianellus Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., pt. 3, Gallinae, 1844, 46 ; 

 pt. 5, Gallinae, 1867, 87, part.— Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xlv, 1857, 428. 



Pcdiocaetes phasianellus Elliot, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1862, 403, part; 

 Monogr. Tetraonidae, 1865, pi. 15, part. — American Ornithologists' Union, 

 Check-list, 1886, No. 308, part; ed. 2, 1895, 116, part.— Bendire, Life Hist. North 

 Amer. Birds, i, 1892, 97, part.— Macoun, Cat. Can. Birds, 1900, 210 part. 



P[ediocaetes] phasianelleus Reichenow, Die Vogel, i, 1913, 322. 



Pedioecetes phasianellus Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, 1872, 234, part ; ed. 2, 1884, 

 581, part.— Gill, Auk, xvi, 1899, 23 (nomencl.).— [Nash], Check List Vert. On- 

 tario: Birds, 1905, 35 (Ontario, scarce). — Baillie and Harrington, Contr. 

 Roy. Ontario Mus. Zool., No. 8, pt. 1, 1936, 29, part (Ontario, more or less 

 common summer resident in extreme northern part). — Snyder, Trans. Roy. Can. 

 Inst, xxii, 1938, 186 (w. Rainy River District, Ontario, formerly common; eggs; 

 3 juv. spec). 



Pedioecetes phasianellus Dwight, Auk, xvii, 1900, 164 (molt). — Fleming, Auk, xviii, 

 1901, 37 (Parry Sound and Muskoka, n. Ontario). — Preble, North Amer. Fauna, 

 No. 22, 1902, 104 (Norway House, Oxford House, Playgreen Lake, Hudson Bay 

 Region). — Eifrig, Auk, xxiii, 1906, 313 in text (Great Whale River, east coast 

 of Hudson Bay, 55° 30' N.).— AIacoun and Macoun, Cat. Can. Birds, 1909, 

 230, part. 



Pediaecaetcs phasianellus Elliot, Monogr. Tetraonidae, 1865, text opposite pi. 15 

 part. 



Pedieccetes phasianellus Elliot, Monogr. Tetraonidae, 1865, introd. 5, part. 



Pedioecetes phasianellus var. phasianellus Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. North 

 Amer. Birds, iii, 1874, 434 part, pt. 69, fig. 3 (part, life hist., descr., distr.). 



°* Seven specimens from Norway House, Tames Bay, and Churchill. 

 " Eleven specimens from James Bay and Churchill. 



