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feiiiale(?) and anusualli/ light colored, we have had our drawing made, on 

 account of its having been procured in the American territory, " while his 

 description is taken "from a handsome male specimen from Arctic America." 

 The genus Pediocaetes therefore is composed of the two following species, 

 with this diagnosis : 



General color white and brownish yellow with irregu- 

 lar black-markings. Beneath pure white, the feath- 

 ers on the breast and flanks with brown U-shaped 



markings. Throat buff. Pediocaetes Columbianus. 



General color white and black, with irregular dark 

 brown markings. Beneath pure white, with V-shaped 

 black marks on the breast and sides, broader and 

 closer than those of its relative. Throat white in- 

 terspersed with small black marks Pediocaetes phasianellus. 



The species may be more fully described thus : 



Pediocaetes Columbiaxps (Ord.) Elliot. 

 Tetrao phasianellus ? Ord. Guthrie's Geog., 21 Am. ed., 1815, p. 317. 

 Phasiami^ Columhianus, do. do. 



Tetrao phasianellus, Bon. Syn., 1828, p. 127. 



Do. " Am. Ornith., vol. iii. 1828, p. 37, pi. xix. 



Do. Nuttall, Man. vol. i. 1832, p. 669. 



Do. Audub. Ornith. Biog., vol. iv. 1838, p. 569, pi. 382. 



Do. " Syn. 1839, p. 205. 



Do. " Birds of Amer., vol. v. 1842, p. 110, pi. 298. 



Do. Newberry, Cal. & Or. Route. Rep. P. R. R. Surv., vol. 



vi. iv. 1857, p. 94, 

 Tetrao (^Centrocercus') phasianellus. Swain, Faun. Bor. Am., vol. ii. 1831, p.361. 

 Do. Bonp. Comptes Rendus, xlv. 1857, p. 428. 



Tetrao vrophasianellus, Doug. Trans. Linn. Soeiet., vol. xvi. 1829, p. 136. 

 Pediocaetes phasianellus, Baird, vol. ix. P. R. R. R., p. 626. 



Head and throat brownish yellow, the front, crown, occiput and cheeks 

 irregularly marked with black or very dark brown ; superciliary band whitish ; 

 back ferruginous brown, variously spotted with black or brownish yellow ; 

 wings brownish grey, with large spots of white on all the coverts ; transverse 

 bars on the secondaries, and the outer webs of the primaries which are dark 

 brown, spotted with the same ; the tail feathers have the inner web white, 

 outer brownish gray, dotted with darker brown ; the central feathers are elon- 

 gated and same color as the back— under parts are pure white, the feathers on 

 the breast and flanks having a brown U-shaped mark. Bill black ; feet brown. 

 Hah. — Northern prairies from W isconsin to Oregon and Washington territories. 



Pediocaetes phasianellus, (Linn.) Elliott. 

 Tetrao phasianellus, Linn. Syst. Nat., vol. i. 10 ed., 1758, p. 160. 



Do. Forst. Philos. Trans., Ixii. 1772, p. 394 and 495. 



Do. Gmelin Syst. Nat., vol. i. p. 747. 



Do. Lath. Ind. Ornith., vol. ii. p. 635. 



Tetrao urogallus, var. B., Linn. Syst. Nat., vol. i. .ed. 12th, p. 273. 

 Tetrao phasianellus, Bon. Amer. Ornith., vol. iii. 182S, text (5*- Sharp-tailed 



Grouse. Pennant. 

 Pediocaetes Kennicotti, Suckley, Proc. A. Nat. Sc, 1861. 



General color black. Top of head black, a few faint marks of rusty towards 

 the occiput, sides of head black, the feathers tipped with white ; those on the 

 side and back of neck tipped with rusty ; throat white, spotted with black. 

 The back is also black, the feathers margined with rufous brown ; the rump 

 is lighter, caused by the feathers being tipped broadly with grayish ; the 

 elongated central feathers of the tail are (in the specimen before me) jet 

 black, irregularly crossed with yellowish white and gray. Wings blackish 

 brown, with large white spots on all the coverts, in addition to the rusty 



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