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middle toe without claw 36-39.2 (38.1) ; height of bill at base 10.3-12.4 

 (11.5 mm.).^-' 



Adult female— Wing 190-202 (196.3) ; tail 107-119 (111.9) ; culmen 

 from anterior end of nostril 9.9-11.9 (10.8); tarsus 39.2^2.8 (41.2); 

 middle toe without claw 35.7-39.3 (37.5) ; height of bill at base 10.9- 

 12.5 (11.8 mm.).»5 



Range. — Resident from north-central Alaska (Circle, Fairbanks, Tan- 

 ana, Tanana Crossing, north fork of Kuskokwim River, Delta and Taklat 

 Rivers) to southern Yukon (Tagish Lake on the Yukon River — 

 British Columbia border) and to extreme northeastern Alberta (Fort 

 Chippewyan, Smith Landing, Fort Smith, and Peace Point). 



Type locality. — Fairbanks, Alaska. 



Pedioecetes phasianelhis Dall and Bannister, Trans. Chicago Acad. Sci., i, 1869, 



287 (Nulato to Fort Yukon). 

 PedioccEtes phasianelhis American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, 1886, No. 



308, part.— Nelson, Birds Alaska, 1887, 139 part (Alaska; nesting). 

 Pediocaetes phasianellus Bendire, Life Hist. North Amer. Birds, i, 1892, 97, part 1. 

 Pedioecetes phasianellus Osgood, North Amer. Fauna, No. 30, 1907, 87 (Yukon 



Territory; Macmillan River; Thirtymile River, Seltark, and Pelly region). 

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



ed. 3, 1910, 144 part (central Alaska). — Brooks and Sw^arth, Pacific Coast 



Avif., No. 17, 1925, 52 (extreme northwestern British Columbia; Tagish Lake, 



and Hudson's Hope, upper Peace River). 

 Pedioecetes phasianellus phasianelhis 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 (central Alaska).— Peters, Check-list 



Birds of World, ii, 1934, 40 part. 

 [Tetrao] columbianus Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 276, No. 9830 part (?). 

 P[edioccetes] phasianellus columbianus Ridgvvay, Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, 



204, part (Fort Yukon, Alaska). 

 Pediocetes phasianellus columbianus Bailey, Handb. Birds Western United States, 



1902, 132, part (Alaska). 

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



ed. 2, 1895, 116 part (central Alaska). 

 Pedioecetes phasianellus kennicottii Snyder, Univ. Toronto Studies, biol. serv.. No. 40, 



1935, 4, 48, part (monogr., crit.) ; Occ. Pap. Roy. Ontario Mus. Zool., No. 2, 



1935, 2, part (monogr.). — Hellmayr and Conover, Cat. Birds Amer., i. No. 1, 



1942, 221 part (syn., distr.). 



P[edioecetes] pihrnianellus] kennicottii Snyder, Auk, Ivi, 1039, 184, part (distr.). 

 P[ediocetes] p[hasianellus] kennicotti Cowan, Occ. Papers, British Columbia Prov. 



Mus., No. 1, 1939, 27 (Peace River district, British Columbia). 

 Pedioecetes phasianellus caurus Friedmann, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., xxxiii, 



1943, 190 (Fairbanks, Alaska; descr. ; distr.; crit.). 



Thirteen specimens from Alaska, Yukon, and extreme northern Alberta. 

 Thirty-three specimens from Alaska. 



