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GENUS CENTROCERCUS SWAINSON. 



Centrocercus SWAINSON, Fauna Bor.-Am., II, 1831 (1832), 358, 496. 

 Type, by orig. desig., Tetrao urophasianus BONAPARTE. 



Centrocercus urophasianus (BONAPARTE). Sage Hen. [309.] 



Tetrao urophasianus BONAPARTE, Zool. Journ., Ill, 1827, 213. ("North- 

 western countries beyond the Mississippi, especially on the Missouri.") 



RANGE. 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. 



FAMILY MELEAGRIDJE. TURKEYS. 



GENUS MELEAGRIS LINNAEUS. 



Meleagris LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 156. Type, by subs, 

 desig., Meleagris gallopavo LINN^US (Gray, 1840). 



Meleagris gallopavo (LINNAEUS). 



RANGE. Eastern and south central United States, west to Arizona 

 and south to the mountains of Oaxaca. 



a. [Meleagris gallopavo gallopavo. Extralimital.] 



6. Meleagris gallopavo silve"stris VIEILLOT. Wild Turkey. [310o.] 



Meleagris silvestris VIEILLOT, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., IX, 1817, 447. 



RANGE. 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 merriami NELSON. Merriam's Turkey. [310.] 



Meleagris gallopavo merriami NELSON, Auk, XVII, April, 1900, 120. 

 (47 miles southwest of Winslow, Arizona.) 



RANGE. Transition and Upper Sonoran zones in the mountains of south- 

 ern Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, western Texas, northern Sonora, and 

 Chihuahua. 



