Il6 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



307. Tympanuchus pallidicinctus Ridgw. 



Lesser Prairie Hen. 



Cupidonia cupido var. pallidicincta Ridgw. Bull. Essex Inst. V. 



Dec. 1873, 199. 

 Tympanuchus pallidicinctus Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. VIII. 



1885, 355. 



[B— 0384^, R 477^, C 564.] 



Geog. Dist. — Eastern edge of the Great Plains from western and 

 probably southern Texas northward through Indian Territory to 

 Kansas. 



Genus FEDIOCiETES Baird. 



Pedioccetes Baird, B. N. Am. 1858, 625. Type, Tetrao phasia- 

 nellus Linn. 



308. PediocsBtes phasianellus (Linn.). 



Sharp-tailed Grouse. 



Tetrao phasianellus Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 160. 

 Pedioccetes phasianellus Elliot, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 

 403 (nee Baird, 1858, qui subsp. columbianus). 



[B— C 383, R 478, C 561.] 



Geog. Dist. — Interior of British America, from Lake Superior 

 and Hudson Bay to Fort Simpson. 



308 a. Pediocsetes phasianellus columbianus (Ord). 



Columbian Sliarp-tailed Grouse. 



Phasianus columbianus Ord, Guthrie's Geog. 2d Am. ed. II. 



1815, 317- 

 Pedicecetes phasianellus var. columbianus Coues, Key, 1872, 234. 



[B 463, C z'^z^, R 478^, C 562.] 



Geog. Dist. — Plains of the northwestern United States and British 

 Columbia to central portions of Alaska ; northward chiefly west of 

 the main Rocky Mountains ; eastward in Montana and Wyoming ; 

 southward to Utah, northern Nevada, and northeastern California. 



