PRANK SCHLEY'S PARTRIDGE AND PHEASANT SHOOTING. 



COLUMBIA SHAEP-TAIL GROUSE. 

 Pedioecetes phasianellus, Var, columbianus. BAIRD. 



|P. CHAR. Prevailing colors yellowish-brown and 

 white ; ground-color of head and neck deep buff. 

 Upper parts vari gated with transverse spots of 

 black, and more or less tinged with rusty; scapulars 

 without longitudinal spots of white, wing-coverts and outer 

 webs of primaries with large conspicuous spots of pure 

 white, the former roundish, the latter more quadrate. 

 Breast and sides with Y-shaped markings of pale yellow- 

 ish brown, bordered with dusk} 7 ". Throat immaculate, or 

 only minutely speckled; feathers of tarsus short, the toes 

 completely bare. No appreciable difference between the 

 sexes. 



Male (22,011, Simiahmoo, Washington Territory; Dr. 

 Kennerly.) Wing, 8, 00 ; tail, 4, 40, two middle feathers 

 one inch longer. 



Female (19,173, Rose Briar Creek ; F. Y. Hay den.) Wing. 

 8, 80; tail, 4, 00. 



HAB. Plains and prairies of the United States, from Il- 

 linois and Wisconsin, West to Oregon, Nevada, etc.; South 

 to Colorado, New Mexico, etc. "North American Birds." 

 Baird, Brewer and Eidgway, Vol. III. 



HABITS. The description of the habits of this Groue, is 

 as described in the North American Birds, by Baird, Brewer 

 and Ridgway. They state : " This species is the more 

 Southern of the two varieties of Sharp-Tailed Grouse found 

 in North America. Owing to the confusion which has ex- 

 isted until recently, in which both the Northern and South- 

 ern races have been considered as one, the geographical 

 distribution of each may not be defined with complete ex- 



