84 TETEAOXI ]).!;. 



Pedluecetes phasianellus, Neuwied, J. f. 0. 1858, p. 435. 

 Pediocfetes phasianellus, Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 62G (1860) ; Coop. 



c^- Suckl. Hep. Expl. 3Iiss. Rlv. xii. no. 3, p. 223 (1860). 

 Pediocfetes columbianus, Elliot, P. Ac. PhUad. 1862, p. 403. 

 Pedirecetes urophasianellus, Blakisf. Ibis, 1863, p. 127. 

 Pedisecretes columbianus, Elliot, Mon. Tetr. pi. xiv. (1865). 

 Ceutrncercus columbianus. Gray, List Gallina Brit. Mu!<. p. 88 (186/). 

 Pedia?cetes columbianus, Coo2j. Calif. Orn. i. p. 532 (1870). 

 Tetrao columbianus, Grai/, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 276 (1870). 

 Pedioscetes phasianellus, var. columbianus, Baird, Brew., Sj- Ridyw. 



iii. p. 436 (1874). 

 Pedioecetes phasianellus colLiinbianus, Coues, Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. 



iv. p. 630 (1878) [Dakota ; Montana] ; Mearns, Bull. Kutt. Orn. C. 



iv. p. 117 (1879) [Ft. Klamath] ; Bob. 8r Benn. Bull. Xutt. Orn. 



C. V. p. 17 (1880) [Minnesota] ; Breivst. Bull. Nutt. Orn. C. vii. 



pp. 227, 233 (1882) [Washington Terr.] ; Coues, Key, p. 581 (1884) ; 



Nehrl. J.f. O. 1885, p. 143 [Illinois] : Drew, Auk, ii. p. 17 (1885) 



[Colorado] ; Ayersb. Auk, ii. p. 285 (1885) [Dakota] ; 8eton, Auk, 



i'ii. p. 153 (1886) [W. Manitoba] ; Memll^Auk, v. p. 145 (1888) 



[Oregon]. 

 Pedioecetes phasianellus campestris, Bidyw. P. Biol. Soc. Wmh. ii. 



p. 93 (1884) [Montana]. 

 Pediocfetes phasianellus columbianus, A. O. U. Check-l. p. 176 



(1886) ; liidyw. Man. p. 204 (1887) ; Townsend, P. U.S. ^'at. 



Mus. X. pp. 200, 235 (1887) [N. California]. 

 Pediocfetes phasianellus campestris, A. 0. U. Check-l. p. 176 (1880) ; 



Bidqw. Man. p. 204 (1887) ; Thoinjjson, P. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiii. 



p. 516 (1891) [S. & W. Manitoba]. 



Adult male. General colour above sandj grey or greyish clay- 

 colour, mottled and irregularly barred and blotched with black and 

 spotted with white, especially towards the base of the feathers of 

 the iuterscapulary region ; wing-coverts, scapulars, and outer second- 

 aries Avhite, spotted at the extremity ; quills light brown ; rest of 

 the secondaries barred and tipped with white ; all the primaries 

 spotted on the outer web with white and the inner ones tipped with 

 the same colour ; lores, superciliary stripes, cheeks, chin, and throat 

 pale buff; cheeks and sometimes the throat spotted with black : neck 

 buff, barred and mottled with black ; chest, breast, and sides of 

 belly white, each feather with a concentric submarginal black band; 

 sides and flanks like the scapulars ; middle of belly and vent white ; 

 tarsi smoky white ; under tail-coverts mottled with black and sandy 

 grey, and barred, mottled, and widely tipped with white ; two 

 middle pairs of tail-feathers barred and marked with rufous buff 

 and black and lipped with white ; rest of outer feathers mostly 

 white, with the basal part of the outer web mottled with black. 

 Total length 15 inches, wing 8-1, tail 5, tarsus 1*7. 



Adult female. Resembles the male, but the tail is a trifle shorter 

 and the size somewhat less ; generally, too, the barring on the back 

 of the neck and upper mantle is stronger and more regular. Total 

 length 14-8 inches, wing 7*7, tail 4-5. 



Hab. United States — north to Manitoba, east to Wisconsin and 

 Northern Illinois, south to New Mexico, and west from Northern 

 California west of the Rocky ^Mountains to Fort Yukon, Alaska. 



