THE SHARP-TAILED GROUSE. 69 



Fediodcelcs phasianellus^ Blakiston, Ibis, 1862, p. 8. 

 Fedixcdtcs phasianellus^ Elliot, Monogr. Tetraon. pi. xv. (1865). 

 {Plate VIL) 



Adult Male and Temalc. — Distinguished from the smaller and 

 more southern form, P. co/in/ibianus, by having the general 

 colour above dark, the black on the upper-parts predominating 

 over the rufous, buff, and white markings ; the feathers of the 

 chest black, with a white heart-sliaped patch in the middle 

 and a white fringe round the margin. Male measures: Total 

 length, i6-8 inches; wing, 8-4; tail, 4-6; tarsus, 1*5. Female 

 somewhat smaller. 



Range. — Interior of British America, extending north to Fort 

 Simpson, south to Lake Winnipeg and the north shore of 

 Lake Superior, east to Hudson Bay, and west to the Rocky 

 Mountains. 



Habits. — The habits of this form appear to be very similar to 

 those of its more southern representative. It inhabits the 

 wooded districts and borders of the tundras near the lakes. 



Eggs. — Seven to fourteen in number. Fawn brown, choco- 

 late, or tawny, covered with small well-marked reddish-brown 

 spots and dots. Average measurements, I'S by 1*3 inch. 



II. THE COLUMBIAN SHARP-TAILED GROUSE. PEDICECETES 

 COLUMBIANUS. 



Phasiamis columhianus^ Ord, Guthrie's Geogr. (2nd Amer. ed.), 



ii. p. 317 (1815). 

 Pediocceics colunihianus^ Elliot, P. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 403; 



Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. B. p. 98, pi. iii. figs. 6-8 



(1892); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 83 (1893). 

 PediceccBtes cohunbiarms, Elliot, Monogr. Tetraon. pi. xiv. (1865). 

 Pedmcetes columbiaiius^ Cooper, Orn. Calif, i. p. 532 (1870). 

 Pedioecetes phasiaiiellus cainpestris^ Ridgw. P. Biol. Soc. Wash. 



ii. p. 93 (1884); Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. B. p. 98, pi, 



iii, figs. 6-8 (1892). 



