ORDER GALLINE. 145 
GENUs CENTROCERCUS Swainson. 
Centrocercus Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., II, 1831 (1832), 358, 496. 
Type, by orig. desig., Tetrao wrophasianus BONAPARTE. 
Centrocércus urophasidnus (BoNapARTE). Sage Hen. [309.] 
Tetrao urophasianus BONAPARTE, Zool. Journ., III, 1827, 213. (‘‘ North- 
western countries beyond the Mississippi, especially on the Missouri.’’) 
RaNnGE.— Sagebrush plains of Transition Zone from middle south- 
ern British Columbia, southern Saskatchewan, and northwestern 
North Dakota south to middle eastern California, northwestern New 
Mexico, and northwestern Nebraska. 
Famity MELEAGRIDA. Turkeys. 
GENUS MELEAGRIS LINN vs. 
Meleagris Linnmus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 156. Type, by subs. 
desig., Meleagris gallopavo L1nNxus (Gray, 1840). 
Meleagris gallopavo (LINN us). 
RancE.— Eastern and south central United States, west to Arizona 
and south to the mountains of Oaxaca. 
a. [Meleagris gallopavo gallopavo. Extralimital.] 
b. Meleagris gallopavo silvéstris Vinittor. Wild Turkey. [310a.] 
Meleagris silvestris Vie1tLoT, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., IX, 1817, 447. 
RancGE.— Eastern United States from Nebraska, Kansas, western Okla- 
homa, and eastern Texas east to central Pennsylvania, and south to the Gulf 
coast; formerly north to South Dakota, southern Ontario, and southern 
Maine. 
c. Meleagris gallopavo mérriami Netson. Merriam’s Turkey. [310.] 
Meleagris gallopavo merriami Neuson, Auk, XVII, April, 1900, 120. 
(47 miles southwest of Winslow, Arizona.) 
Rance.— Transition and Upper Sonoran zones in the mountains of south- 
ern Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, western Texas, northern Sonora, and 
Chihuahua. 
