OREGON OR SABINE’S GROUSE. 83 
BONASA UMBELLUS SABINI. 
Geographical Distribution.—Coast range of mountains from 
Northern British Columbia to California. 
Adult Male.—Upper parts, mostly dark, rusty chestnut, 
mingled with black blotches and mottling; rump and upper tail- 
coverts inclined to gray in some specimens; feathers of wings 
have a central streak of yellowish white; flanks, rusty, barred 
with black; tail, deeprust color, barred irregularly, with black, 
tipped with gray, and having a subterminal black band, above 
which is another bar of gray; under tail-coverts, orange, barred 
with black and V-shaped white mark at tip; feathers of thighs 
and tarsus, rusty. Total length, about 17} inches; wings, 74; 
tail, 64. 
Adult Female.—Resembles the male. 
