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Adult female— Wing 171-190 (1/9.2) ; tail 94-119 (107.9) ; exposed 

 culmen 12.7-19.7 (15.8) ; tarsus 32-35.8 (34.2) ; middle toe without claw 

 32.5-36.8 (34.2 mm.).^! 



Range. — Resident in spruce forests and swamps of northwestern 

 United States and southwestern Canada, from southeastern Alaska 

 (Prince of Wales Island, Warren Island, Zarembo Island, and Kasaan 

 Bay) ; north-central British Columbia (Yellowhead Pass; Hudson's Hope 

 on the Peace River ; 40 miles north of Hazelton ; Ingenika River, Thudade, 

 and Kluetantan Lake; etc); and central Alberta (Athabasca River; 

 Edmonton; Banff; Henry House, Jasper House, Siffleur and Pipestone 

 Rivers) ; south through the interior of Washington (Yakima Pass, 

 Nachess Pass, Pasayten River, Hidden Lakes, Cascade Mountains) to 

 northeastern Oregon (Wallowa County and extreme northern Baker 

 County) ; central Idaho (Baker Creek, Sawtooth City, Resort, Fort 

 Lapwai, Fort Sherman, Blue Mountains) ; western Montana (St. Marys 

 Lake, Belton, Poala, Mount McDonald, Belt Mountains, Bitterroot 

 Mountains, Belly River, Rock Creek) ; and to northwestern Wyoming 

 (Yellowstone Park). 



Accidental in Colorado (Palmer House). 



Type locality. — Rocky Mountains from latitude 50°-54°, near the 

 source of the Columbia River, restricted to Athabasca Pass region, Brit- 

 ish Columbia, by Hall, Murrelet, xv, January 1944, 11. 



Tetrao canadensis, var. Bonaparte, Amer. Orn., iii, 1828, 47, pi. 10. 



Tetrao canadensis (not of Linnaeus) Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor.- 

 Amer., ii, 1831 (1832), 346. 



Tetrao canadensis "T. frankUnii Doug. 5" Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor.- 

 Amer., ii, 1831 (1832), pi. 61. 



Tetrao canadensis "T. frankUnii Doug. 9 " Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor.- 

 Amer., ii, 1831, pi. 62. 



T[ctrao} frankUnii Douglas, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, xvi, 1829, 139 ("Valleys 

 of the Rocky Mountains, from latitude 50° to 54°, near the sources of the 

 Columbia River")." 



Tetrao frankUnii Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Amer. ii, 1831 (1832), 

 pi. 61.— Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 623 (St. Marys "Rocky Mts.," 

 i.e. Montana ?) ; Cat. North Amer. Birds, 1859, No. 461 ; in Cooper, Orn. Cali- 

 fornia, Land Birds, 1870, 529 (crit.). — Cooper and Suckley, Rep. Pacific R. R. 

 Surv., xii, book 2, pt. 3, 1860, 221 (Rocky and Bitterroot Mountains, Mont.; 

 near Yakima Pass, Cascade Mountain, Wash.). 



Tetrao frankUni Lesson, Traite d'Orn., 1831, 502. — Blakiston, Ibis, 1862, 8 (w. 

 side Rocky Mountains, lat. 49°) ; 1863, 122 (Kootenay Pass to valley of Flat- 

 head River).— Lord, Proc. Roy. Artil. Inst. Woolwich, ix, 1864, 123 (British 

 Columbia) . 



" Thirty-nine specimens from Alaska, British Columbia, Alberta, Washington, and 

 Montana. 



" "Sparingly seen ... on the high mountains which form the base or platform 

 of the snowy peaks 'Mount Hood,' 'Mount St. Helena,' and 'Mount Baker.' " 



