ORDER GALLING. II7 



308 b. Pediocaetes phasianellus campestris Ridgw. 



Prairie Sharp-tailed Grouse. 



Pedicecetes phasianellus campestris Ridgw. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 

 II. April 10, 1884, 93. 



[B- C- R- C-.] 



Geog. Dist. — Plains and prairies of the United States east of the 

 Rocky Mountains ; north to Manitoba ; east to Wisconsin and Illi- 

 nois ; south to New Mexico. 



Genus CENTROCERCUS Swainson. 



Centrocercus Swains, in Sw. & Rich. Fauna Bor. Am. II. 183 1, 

 358, 496. Type, Tetrao tirophasianus Bonap. 



309. Centrocercus urophasianus (Bonap.). 



Sage Grouse. 



Tetrao urophasianus Bonap. Zool. Journ. III. 1827, 213. 

 Centrocercus urophasianus Swains, in Sw. & Rich. Fauna Bor. 

 Am. II. 1831, 497, pi. 58. 



[B 462, C 382, R 479, C560.] 



Geog. Dist. — Sage regions of the Rocky Mountain plateau and 

 westward, chiefly within the United States, but north to Assiniboia 

 and the dry interior of British Columbia ; east to North Dakota, 

 South Dakota, Nebraska, and Colorado ; south to northern New 

 Mexico, Utah, and Nevada ; west in California, Oregon and Wash- 

 ington to the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Range. 



Family PHASIANID^. Pheasants, etc. 

 Subfamily MBLEAGRIN^. Turkeys. 



Genus MELEAGtRIS Linnaeus. 



Meleagris Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 156. Type, M. gallo- 

 pavo Linn. 



