144 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Tympanuchus pallidicinctus (RIDGWAY). Lesser Prairie Chicken. 

 [307.] 



Cupidonia cupido var. pallididncta RIDGWAY, 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 PEDICECETES BAIRD. 



Pedicecetes BAIRD, Rep. Expl. & Surv. R. R. Pac., IX, 1858, xxi, xliv, 

 619, 625. Type, by orig. desig., Tetrao phasianellus LINNAEUS. 



Pedicecetes phasianellus 



RANGE. Central and western North America from central Alaska 

 and Ungava to northeastern California and Illinois. 



a. Pedioecetes phasianellus phasianellus (LINNAEUS). Sharp-tailed Grouse. 

 [308.] 



Tetrao phasianellus LINN^US, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 160. (Hudson 

 Bay.) 



RANGE. 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. 



6. Pedioecetes phasianellus columbianus (>RD). Columbian Sharp-tailed 

 Grouse. [308a.] 



Phasianus columbianus ORD, 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 campestris RIDGWAY. Prairie Sharp-tailed Grouse. 



[3086.] 



Pedicecetes phasianellus campestris RIDGWAY, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 

 II, April 10, 1884, 93. (Illinois.) 



RANGE. Southern Alberta and southern Manitoba to Wyoming, Kansas, 

 and northern Illinois. 



