116 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
307. Tympanuchus pallidicinctus Ripvcw. 
Lesser Prairie Hen. 
Cupidonia cupido var. pallidicincta RipGw. Bull. Essex Inst. V. 
Dec. 1873, 199- 
Tympanuchus pallidicinctus Ripew. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. VIII. 
1885, 355- 
[B—, C 384a, R 4774, C 564.] 
Geroc. Disr.— Eastern edge of the Great Plains from western and 
probably southern Texas northward through Indian Territory to 
Kansas. 
Genus PEDIOCASTES Barrp. 
Pediocetes BAIRD, B. N. Am. 1858, 625. Type, Zetrao phasta- 
nellus LINN. 
308. Pedioczetes phasianellus (Linn.). 
Sharp-tailed Grouse. 
Tetrao phasianellus LINN. 5. N. ed. to, I. 1758, 160. 
Pediocetes phasianellus Evuiot, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 
403 (nec Bairp, 1858, qui subsp. columbianus). 
[B—, C 383, R 478, C 561.] 
Groc. Dist.— Interior of British America, from Lake Superior 
and Hudson Bay to Fort Simpson. 
308 a. Pediocztes phasianellus columbianus (Orp). 
Columbian Sharp-tailed Grouse. 
Phasianus columbianus ORD, GUTHRIE’S Geog. 2d Am. ed. II. 
TODS, 317 
Pedicecetes phastanellus var. columbianus Cours, Key, 1872, 234. 
[B 463, C 383a, R 478a, C 562.] 
Geoc. Dist.— Plains of the northwestern United States and British 
Columbia to central portions of Alaska; northward chiefly west of 
the main Rocky Mountains; eastward in Montana and Wyoming ; 
southward to Utah, northern Nevada, and northeastern California. 
