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Tympanuchus pallidicinctus (RipGway). Lesser Prairie Chicken. 
[307.] 
Cupidonia cupido var. pallidicincta Ripaway, Bull. Essex Inst., V, Dec., 
1873, 199. (Prairies of Texas, near Lat. 32° N.) 
RanGE.— Great Plains, from Kansas south to west central Texas. 
GENUS PEDIGCETES Barrp. 
Pediecetes Batrp, Rep. Expl. & Surv. R. R. Pac., IX, 1858, xxi, xliv, 
619, 625. Type, by orig. desig., Tetrao phasianellus LINN&=Us. 
Pediccétes phasianéllus (LINN us). 
RanGE.— Central and western North America from central Alaska 
and Ungava to northeastern California and Illinois. 
a. Pedicecetes phasianellus phasianellus (Livnzxus). Sharp-tailed Grouse. 
[308.] 
Tetrao phasianellus LINN&=US, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 160. (Hudson 
Bay.) 
Rance.— Central Alaska and northwestern British Columbia east through 
central Keewatin to central western Ungava, and south to Lake Superior and 
the Parry Sound district, Ontario; casual east to Saguenay River, Quebec. 
b. Pedicecetes phasianellus columbianus (Orp). Columbian Sharp-tailed 
Grouse. [308a.] 
Phasianus columbianus OrpD, in GUTHRIE’s Geog., 2d Am. ed., 1815, 317. 
(Great plains of the Columbia River.) 
RanGe.— Central British Columbia and central Alberta south to north- 
eastern California, Utah, and central Colorado. 
c. Pedicecetes phasianellus campéstris Ripaway. Prairie Sharp-tailed Grouse. 
[308b.] 
Pedicecetes phasianellus campestris Ripaway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 
II, April 10, 1884, 93. (Illinois.) 
RanceE.— Southern Alberta and southern Manitoba to Wyoming, Kansas, 
and northern Illinois. 
