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NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Species and Varieties. 

 P. phasianellus. Above variegated with transverse spots of yellowish- 

 brown and black ; wing-coverts with large, roundish white spots ; outer 

 webs of primaries with quadrate white spots. Beneath white anteriorly 

 and along the sides, with V-shaped marks of brown or dusky. Sexes alike 

 in color and size. 



Above blackish-dusky, variegated transversely with yellowish-brown ; 

 scapulars with broad white medial longitudinal streaks of white. 

 Markings below clear, uniform blackish-dusky. Toes entirely hidden 

 by the long hair-like feathers of the tarsus. Head and neck with the 

 ground-color white, the throat heavily spotted with dusky. Hob. 

 British America to Arctic regions .... \&y. phasianellus. 



Above yellowish-brown, mixed with reddish, and variegated trans- 

 versely with black ; scapulars without Avhite longitudinal spots. Mark- 

 ings beneath clear pale brown, with dusk}"" borders. Toes entirely 

 bare. Head and neck deep buif, the throat not spotted. Hah. Prairies 

 and plains of northern U. S., from Wisconsin and Illinois to Oregon. 



var. coltimhianus. 



Pedicecetes phasianellus, var. phasianellus, Elliot. 



SHARP-TAILED GROUSE. 



Tetrao phasianellus, LiNN. S. N. I, (ed. 10,) 1758, p. 160. — Forst. Phil. Trans. LXII, 1772, 

 394, 495. — Gmel. — Lath. — Bon. Comp. List. — Sabine. — Edwards. — Richard- 

 son. Centrocercus p. G. li. Gray, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. — Bon. Compt. Rend. — ? Swains. 

 F. B. A. (in part ?). Pedicecetes p. (not of Baird, Birds IST. Am.) — Elliot, P. A. N. S. 

 Philad. 1862, 402-404. — Is. Monog. Tetraoninse, pi. — Murray, Edinb. Phil. J. 1859 

 (Trout Lake Station). — Dall k Bannister, Tr. Chicago Ac. I, 1869, 287. — Gray, 

 Cat. Brit. Mus. V, 1867, 88. Tetrao urogalhcs, var. j3, Linn. S. N. I, (ed. 12,) 273. 

 Pedicecetes kennicotti, Suckley, P. A. N. S. Philad. 1861. 



Sp. Char. Prevailing colors, clear dusky-black above, and pure white beneath; no 

 buff about the head. Upper parts variegated with transverse, rather zigzag, spots of 



yellowish-brown ; scapu- 

 lars with broad, elliptical, 

 longitudinal medial spots 

 of pure white ; wing-cov- 

 erts with large rounded, 

 and outer webs of primaries 

 with smaller and more 

 quadrate, spots of pure 

 white. Breast thickly 

 covered with broad V- 

 shaped, and the sides with 

 less numerous sagittate, marks of uniform clear slaty or dusky. Legs densely feathered, 

 the long hair-like feathers reaching beyond the claws, and completely hiding the toes. 

 Throat thickly spotted with dusky. No appreciable differences in plumage between the 

 sexes. Male (31,616, Fort Resolution, Dec. 1862; J. Lockhart). Wing, 8.60; tail, 4.50, 

 the two middle feathers one inch longer. 



Hab. British America, from Hudson's Bay Territory, south to northern shore of Lake 

 Superior, and west to Alaska and British Columbia. 



Pedicecetes phasianellus. 



