176 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



308. PediocsBtes phasianellus (Linn.). 



iShurp-tailed Grouse. 



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

 Pedioco'tcs phasianellus Elliot, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862,403 (ncc 

 Baird, 1858, qui subsp. cohtmbianus). 



[B-,C383, R478, C561.] 



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

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



308 a. Pediocoetes phasianellus columbianus (Ord). 



Columbian Sharp-tailed Grouse. 



Phasianus columbianus Ord, Guthrie's Geog 2d Am. ed. II. 181 5, 



3'7- 

 Pediaecetes phasianellus \z.x. columbianus CouES, Key, 1872, 234. 



[B463, 0383^, R47S^, C562.] 



Hab. Plains of the Northwestern United States. 



308^. Pediocaetes phasianellus campestris Ridgw. 



Prairie Sharp-tailed Grouse. 



Pedio'cetes phasianellus campestris Ridgw. Proc Biol. See. Wash. 

 IL 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. 



Cenfrocercus Swains. Fauna Bor. Am. IL 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. H. 1831, 497, 

 pi. 58. 



