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177 (300ce) Bonasa umbellus sabini (Douglas) 
OREGON RUFFED GROUSE 
Synonyms—Tetrao sabim; Bonasa wmbellus; Bonasa sabini; Oregon Grouse. 
Status—Fairly common locally in timbered portions of the humid Transi- 
tion zone in the extreme northwestern corner of the state, south to the vicinity 
of Humboldt Bay (Townsend, Auk, m1, 1886, p. 491; and many later records), 
and east into the Siskiyou Mountains (M. P. Anderson and J. Grinnell, Proc. 
Acad, Nat. Sei. Phila., 1903, p. 6). 
178 (308a) Pedioecetes phasianellus columbianus (Ord) 
COLUMBIAN SHARP-TAILED GROUSE 
Synonyms—Tetrao phasianellus; Tetrao columbianus; Pedioecetes colum- 
bianus; Prairie Chicken. 
Status—Occurred formerly as a fairly common resident on the Transition 
plains of the Modoe region: Canoe Creek, 50 miles northeast of Fort Reading, 
and upper Pitt River (Newberry, Pac. R. R. Rep., vi, 1857, p. 94) ; Camp Bid- 
well (Henshaw, Rep. Wheeler Surv., 1879, p. 317). No information is at hand 
confirming its existence within the state at the present time. 
179 (309) Centrocercus urophasianus (Bonaparte) 
SAGE-HEN 
Synonyms—T'etrao wrophasianus; Sage-cock ; Cock-of-the-plains. 
Status—Fairly common resident of an arid (sage-brush) part of the Transi- 
tion zone, from Modoe County as far west as shores of Rhett (or Tule) Lake 
(Newberry, Pac. R. R. Rep., vi, 1857, p. 95) south along east base of the Sierra 
Nevada through Lassen County (Townsend, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, p. 
200), Sierra and Alpine counties (Belding, Land Bds. Pae. Dist., 1890, p. 19), to 
head of Owens River and White Mountains, in Mono County (A. K. Fisher, N. 
Amer. Fauna no. 7, 1893, p. 31). The single record from the Mohave River, San 
Bernardino County (J. G. Cooper, Amer. Nat., m, 1869, p. 188; J. G. Cooper, 
Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 1v, 1868, p. 13), if authentic, indicates occurrence, for- 
merly or casually, far out of the known present range of the species. 
180 (312) Columba fasciata fasciata Say 
BAND-TAILED PIGEON 
Synonym—Columba monilis. 
Status—Common but irregular winter visitant throughout the state west 
of the Sierran divide and below the level of heavy snow, south through the San 
Diegan district. Appears locally in large flocks, particularly in the oak and 
chaparral belts. Of late years becoming notably less numerous. Occurs through 
the summer, breeding locally in small numbers, in the Transition zone along both 
the Sierras and Coast Ranges, south as far as Pine Mountain, San Diego County 
(Sharp, Condor, v, 1903, p. 16), and Laguna Mountains, San Diego County (F. 
Stephens, Condor, xv, 1913, p. 129). It appears that the entire pigeon popula- 
