BONASA UMBELLOIDES— PEDTCECETES COLUMBIANUS. 599 



Bona s A ujroELLUS. 



Kuflc-d Gr<>iisc. 



13. umbclloides — Grai/ Buffed Grouse. 



Tetrao umbeUoides, Douglas, Trans. \Aun. Soc, XVI, 1820, 148. 



Bonasa ttmhcllm var. umhclloules, Baird, Birds N. Am., 1858, 925; Cat. N. Am. 



Birds, 1859, No. 405.— COUKS, Key, 1872, 235; Cbecii List, 1873, No. 385ii ; 



Birds N.W., 1874, 425.— B. B. & 11., Hist. N. Am. Birds, III, 1874, 453, pi. 



LXI, fig. 10. 



This bird we did not see alive, but dead specimens were occasionally 

 seen in the hands of hunters. It was said to be common in the pine forests 

 of the "Wahsatch, where it is known as the " Pine-Hen." 



List of specimens. 

 955, i ad.; Wahsatch Mountains, near Salt Lake City, October, 1868. 



Pedicecetes PHASIANELLUS. 



Shai-p-t:iilcft Grouse. 



/3 . columhianus — Western Prairie Chicken. 



Phasianus columbianus, Oed, Guthrie's Geog., 2d Am. ed., 1815, 317. 



Pedioecetci cohimbianm, Elliot, Pr. Philad. Acad., 18G2, 403. — Cooper, Orn, 



Cal., I, 1870, 532. 

 Pediacetes pliasiancJlm var. columbianus, Coites, Key, 1872, 234 ; Ciieck List, 1873, 



No. 383a ; Birds N.W., 1874, 407.— B. B. & K., Uist. N. Am. Birds, III, 1674, 



43G, pi. LX, fig. 1. 

 Pediacetes phasianeUu.i, Baird, Birds N. Am., 1858, C2G (not Tetrao phasiancllus, 



Linn., lloS, ^ Pedicecetes) ; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, No. 403. 



This Grouse, known universally among the western people as the 

 "Prairie Chicken,'' we found only in the Upper Humboldt Valley, near 

 Trout Creek, where it was abundant in the rye-grass meadows at the base 

 of the Clover Mountains, and iu a very few similar localities in the Wah- 

 satch district. 



List of specimens. 



937, 9 ad.; Upper Humboldt Valley (Camp 25). September 10, 1808. 15—25— 

 (t)— 0. Bill, black, the lower mandible more ashy basally ; iris, raw-sienua; toe.s, a«hy 

 horn-color. 



