ORDER GALLING. 1 17 



308 b. Fediocaetes phasianellus campestris RIDGW. 



Prairie Sharp-tailed Grouse. 



PedicBcetes 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. 1831, 

 358, 496. Type, Tetrao urophasianus 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. 



[6462, C 382, R 479, C 560.] 



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^B PHEASANTS, ETC. 

 SUBFAMILY MELEAG-RIN^E. TURKEYS. 



GENUS MELEAGRIS LINN^US. 



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

 pavo LINN. 



