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CouEs, Check-list North Amer. Birds, 1873, No. 381, part) ; Birds Northwest, 

 1874, 395, part (Deer Creek, Bitter Cottonwood Creek, and Laramie Peak, 

 Wyo.).— Henshaw, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, xi, 1874, 10 (Utah).— 

 Nelson, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., xvii, 1875, 347 (Salt Lake City, 

 Utah).— Drew, Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 142 (San Juan County, Colo.). 



[Tetrao] obscnA-us Reichenbach, Synop. Av., iii, Gallinaceae, 1848, pi. 215, figs. 

 1887-1889.— Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 276, No. 9823, part.— Coues, Key North 

 Amer. Birds, 1872, 233, part. 



Canace obscitra Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xlv, 1857, 428. — Ridgway, Bull. Essex 

 Inst., V, 1873, 186 (Colorado; pine region); vii, 1875, 22 (e. slope E. Humboldt 

 Mountains), 34 (Parleys Peak, Wahsatch Mountains), 39 (Nevada) ; Orn. 40th 

 Paral, 1877, 598, part (Wahsatch and Uintah Mountains, Utah) ; Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 196, part; Norn. North Amer. Birds, 1881, No. 471, part.— 

 CouES, Check-Hst North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1882, No. 557, part.— Henshaw, 

 Auk, iii, 1886, 80 (upper Pecos River, N. Mex.). 



C[anace] obscura Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1884, 579, part. 



Canace obscurus Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. North Amer. Birds, iii, 1874, 

 pi. 59, figs. 1, 2.— Bendire, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., xix, 1877, 137 (se. 

 Oregon; common; habits; eggs). 



Canace obscurus, var. obscurus Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. North Amer. 

 Birds, iii, 1874, 422, part (except from Sierra Nevada). 



Canace obscura obscura Goode, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 20, 1883, 310. 



Dendragapus obscurus Elliot, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1864, 23 ; Monogr. 

 Tetraon., 1865, pi. 7 and text.— Ame:rican Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, 

 No. 297, part, 1886; ed. 2, 1895, No. 297, part.— Cooke, Bird Migr. Mississippi 

 Valley, 1888, 103 (Black Hills) ; Colorado State Agr. Coll. Bull. 37, 

 1897, 70 (Colorado); Bull. 56, 1900, 202 (Colorado; breeds; Breckenridge).— 

 Mearns, Auk, vii, 1890, 52 (White Mountains, east-central Arizona). — Ben- 

 dire, Life Hist. North Amer. Birds, i, 1892, 41, part.— Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., xxii, 1893, 74, part (excl. synonymy, part, and specimens, part). — 

 Mitchell, Auk, xv, 1898, 307 (San Miguel County, N. Mex., breeding at 10,000 

 feet).— Macoun, Cat. Can. Birds, 1900, 198 (Montana and Idaho).— Gary, 

 Auk, xviii, 1901, 232 (Black Hills, Wyo.).— Bailey, Handb. Birds Western 

 United States, 1902, 124, part; Auk, xxi, 1904, 351 (upper Pecos River, N. Mex.; 

 food, etc.).— JuDD, U. S. Biol. Surv. Bull. 24, 1905, 41^W, part.— Oilman. 

 Condor, ix, 1907, 153 (n. slope La Plata Mountains, sw. Colo.).— Henderson, 

 Univ. Colorado Stud. Zool., vi, 1909, 228 (Boulder County, Colo., in moun- 

 tains). — Visher, Auk, xxvi, 1909, 145 (hills, w. South Dakota; fairly com- 

 mon).— Sclater, Hist. Birds of Colorado, 1912, 145 (Colorado; resident).— 

 Tanner, Condor, xxix, 1927, 197 (Pine Valley Mountains, Utah).— Palmer, 

 Condor, xxx, 1928, 295 in text.— Lee, Condor, xxxviii, 1936, 122 in text 

 (female with 5 chicks, near Paradise, Utah; July). — Monson, Condor, xli, 

 1939, 117 (Lukachukai Mountains, N. Mex., Oct. 26, 1937; pair seen; rare). 



Detidragopus obscurus Taverner, Birds Western Canada, 1926, 164, pi. 21 B (fig.; 

 descr. ; distr. w. Can.) ; Birds Canada, 1934, 152 in text (distr.) ; Can. Water 

 Birds, 1939, 164.— Petrides, Trans. 7th North Amer. Wildlife Conf., 1942, 

 313 in text (age indicators in plumage). 



D[endragapns] obscurus Ridgway, Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, 195, part. 



[Dendragapus] obscurus Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 20, part. 



Dendragapus obscurus obscurus American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, 

 ed. 3, 1910, 138, ed. 4, 1931, 78 (distr.).— ( ?) Saunders, Auk, xxviii, 1911, 

 35 (Gallatin County, Mont.; crit.).— Betts, Univ. Colorado Stud. Zool., x, 

 1913, 191 (Boulder County, Colo.).— Grave and Walker, Birds Wyoming, 



