THE SHARP-TAILED GROUSE. 69 



Pediotcetes phasianelhiS) Blakiston, Ibis, 1S62, p. 8. 

 Pediocccctcs pliasicuiellus, Elliot, Monogr. Tetraon. pi. xv. (1865). 

 {Plate VII.) 

 Adult Male and Female. — Distinguished from the smaller and 

 more southern form, P. co/umh'anus, by having the general 

 colour above dark, the black on the upper-parts predominating 

 over the rufous, buff, and white markings ; the feathers of the 

 chest black, with a white heart-shaped patch in the middle 

 and a white fringe round the margin. Male measures: Total 

 length, i6'S inches; wing, 8*4; tail, 4*6; tarsus, 1*5. Female 

 somewhat smaller. 



Eange.— Interior of British America, extending north to Fort 

 Simpson, south to Lake Winnipeg and the north shore of 

 Lake Superior, east to Hudson Bay, and west to the Rocky 

 Mountains. 



Habits. — The habits of this form appear to be very similar to 

 those of its more southern representative. It inhabits the 

 wooded districts and borders of the tundras near the lakes. 



Eggs. — Seven to fourteen in number. Fawn brown, choco- 

 late, or tawny, covered with small well-marked reddish-brown 

 spots and dots. Average measurements, i - 8 by 1*3 inch. 



II. THE COLUMBIAN SHARP-TAILED GROUSE. PEDICECETES 

 COLUMBIANUS. 



Phasianus columbianus, Ord, Guthrie's Geogr. (2nd Amer. ed.), 



ii. p. 317 (1815). 

 Pedioccetes cohuiibianus, Elliot, P. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 403; 



Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. B. p. 98, pi. iii. figs. 6-8 



(1892); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 83 (1893). 

 Pedioeccetes columbianus, Elliot, Monogr. Tetraon. pi. xiv. (1865). 

 Pedicecetes columbianus, Cooper, Orn. Calif, i. p. 532 (1870). 

 Pedioccetes phasianeUus camftestris^ Ridgw. P. Biol. Soc. Wash. 



ii. p. 93 (1884); Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. B. p. 98, pi. 



iii. figs. 6-S (1892). 



