J50NASA UMliELLOIDES— PEDKECETES OOLUMBIANUS. 599 



BONASA UMBELLUS. 



13. uiiihelUAiJcs — Gray Ruffed Grouse. 



Ti'trao ninbeUoides, Douglas, Trans. Liim. Soc, XVI, 1S29, 148. 



Bonasa umhellus var. umhclloides, Baird, Birds N. Am., 1858, 925; Cat. N. Am. 



Birds, 1859, No. 4G5.— Coues, Key, 1872, 235 ; Clieck List, 1873, No. 385a ; 



Birds N.W., 1874, 425.— B. B. & k, Uist. 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, <J ad.; Wahsatch Mountains, near Salt Lake City, October, 18G8. 



Pediceoetes phasianellus. 



Shiirp-tailcrt Oroiise. 



/i. columhkinus — Western Prairie Chicken. 



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



Pedicecetes columbianus, Elliot, Pr. Philad. Acad., 1862, 403.— Cooper, Orn. 



Cal., I, 1870, 532. 

 Pedicecetes phasianellus var. columbiamis, Coues, Key, 1872, 234; Check List, 1873, 



No. 383a; Birds N.W., 1874, 407.— B. B. & E., Hist. N. Am. Birds, III, 1874, 



43G, pi. LX, fig. 1. 

 Pcdiwcetes phasianellus, Baird, Birds N. Am., 1858, 026 (not Tetrao phasianellus, 



LiNN., 1758, = Pedfoscetes) ; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, No. 463. 



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 in a very few similar localities in the Wah- 

 satch district. 



List of specimens. 



927, 9 ad.; Upper Humboldt Valley (Camp 25), September IG, 1808. 15—25— 

 (?)— 6. Bill, black, the lower mandible more ashy basaliy ; iris, raw-sienna; toes, ashy 

 horn-color. 



