1/6 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



308. Fediocaetes phasianellus (LINN.). 



Sharp-tailed Grouse. 



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

 Pedioccztes phasianellus ELLIOT, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862,403 (nee 

 BAIRD, 1858, qui subsp. cohimbianus) . 



[B -, C 383, R 478,0 561.] 



HAB. British America, from the northern shore of Lake Superior 

 and British Columbia to Hudson's Bay Territory and Alaska. 



308 a. Pediocaetes phasianellus columbiamis (ORD). 



Columbian Sharp-tailed Grouse. 



Phasianus columbianus ORD, GUTHRIE'S Geog. 2d Am. ed. II. 1815, 



3i7- 

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



[B 4 6 3 , C 3830, R 478 rt, 0562.] 

 HAB. Plains of the Northwestern United States. 



308 . Pediocsetes phasianellus campestris RIDGW. 



Prairie Sharp-tailed Grouse. 



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

 II. April 10, 1884, 93. 



[B -, C -, R -, C -.] 



HAB. Plains and prairies of the United States east of the Rocky 

 Mountains, south to New Mexico. 



GENUS CENTROCERCUS SWAINSON. 



Centrocercus SWAINS. Fauna Bor. Am. II. 1831, 358, 496. Type, 

 Tetrao urophasianus BONAP. 



309. Centrocercus urophasianus (BONAP.). 



Sage Grouse. 



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

 Centrocercus urophasianus SWAINS. Fauna Bor. Am. II. 1831, 497, 

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