6. DENDRAGAPUS. 



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round tho fore part of the neck ; lower breast and belly grey ; sides 

 and flanks black, barred and mottled with buff, and tipped with 

 white Hke the scapulars ; under tail-coverts similar in markings, but 

 greyer ; tail black, with a wide grey terminal baud, finely mottled 

 with black, tho middle pair of tail-feathers with irregular bars 

 of buff. Total length 17 inches, wing 8-G, tail o'9, tarsus 1-6. 



Immature female. Differs only from the adult in the pointed 

 shape of the first primaries. 



Younrj birds have pale shaft-stripes to the feathers of the mantle, 

 scapulars, wing-coverts, outer secondaries, and chest : in a very 

 young bird the chin, throat, lower breast, and bcUy are white, and 

 the rest of the uuderparts are white spotted with black. 



Ilab. Rocky Mountains, west to the Wahsatch, south to New 

 Mexico and Arizona, and north to the South Pass. 



Capt. Kellett and 

 Lieut. Wood [P.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



a. Juv. sk. 



b. c? ad. sk. 



c. (S imm. sk. 



d. cJ imm. sk. 



e. c5 imm. sk. 

 /. c? imm. sk. 



ff-l. ^ad.etcJS 



juv. sk. 

 m. 2 Jid. sk. 



n. 2 imm. sk. 



N.W. America. 



N.W. America. 



San Francisco Market, Dec. 



Salt Lake, Utah, Aug. (E. 

 W. Nelson). 



Colorado {Mrs. Maxivell). 



North Park, Colorado, April 

 {E. Cones). 



Santa Fe Mts., New Mexico, 

 Aug. (H. W. Hcnshmo). 



Burgwin Cantonment, Mar. 

 ( W. W. Anderson). 



North Fork, Indian Terri- 

 tory, ;May {('. H.Merriam). 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Subsp. a. Dendragapus fuliginosus. 



Tetrao obscurus, ? Neicb. P. E. R. Rep. vi. pt. iv. p. 93 (1857); Coop. ^ 

 Suekl. Rep. JS.ipl. Miss. Riv. xii. no. 3, p. 219 (18G0) ; Lord, P. R. 

 Art Inst. i. p. U2 (18(53) ; id. Brit. Columb. ii. pp. 163, 298 

 (1866) [^Vancouver Isl., British Columbia"! ; Brown, Ibis, 1868, 

 p. 423 [\ ancouver Isl.] ; Dall cS- Bann. Trans. Chicago Ac. i. p. 287 

 (1869) [Sitka]; Finsch, Abh. nat. J'er. Brem. iii. p. 01 (1873). 



Canace obscurus, var. fuliginosus, Baird, Brew., &■ Ridgw. N. Amer. 

 B. iii. p. 425 (1874). 



Tetrao obscurus fuliginosus, Hartl. J. f. 0. 1883, p. 275 [Portage 

 Bay, Alaska]. 



Canace obscuni fuliginosa, Coues, Key, p. 680 (1884). 



Dendragapus obscurus fuliginosus, Rtdyu: P. U.S. Nat. Mas. viii. 

 p. 355 (1885); Anfh. Auk, iii. p. 164 (1886) [Oregon 1 ; A. O. U. 

 Clieck-l. p. 171 (1886); Townsend, P. U.S. Nat. Mu.i^.x. pp. 200, 

 235 (1887) [N. California]; Ridyic. Man. p. 196 (1887); Merrill, 

 Auk, V. p. 145 (1888) [Oregon] ; Bendire, Auk, vi. p. 32 (1889). 



Adult male. Differs chiefly from the male of D. obscurus in 

 having the grey band across the tip of the tail narrower, less than 

 an inch wide on the middle feathers, and less than O'o on the outer- 

 most feathers ; it is, moreover, a somewhat darker and more uni- 

 form bird, with much less buff markings on the upper parts, especially 

 the wing-coverts. 



