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1878. "AWAHSOOSE." [EoBiNSON, R. E.] Eccentricities of tlie Euffed Grouse 

 [Bonasa umbellus]. <^ Forest and Stream., xi, Nov. 21, 1878, p. 321. 



1878. Cooper, J. G. Californian. Prairie Chickens. <[ Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, iii, 

 No. 2, Apr., 1878, p. 96. 



Being Pedioecetes columbianus instead of the alleged Gupidonia cupido. There was a good 

 deal of newspaper matter on the suhject about this time, all founded in error, the supposed 

 P.ai. ie Chickens west of the Eocky Mountains hetag Sharp-tailed Grouse. 



1878. CouES, E. The Willow Grouse [Lagopus albus] in New York. <^ Bull. Nutt. 



Ornith. Cliih, iii, No. 1, Jan., 1878, p. 41. 

 1878. [Grinnell, G. B.] About our Grouse. <^ Forest and Stream, xi, Oct. 31, Not. 



7, 14, 21, and Dec. 5, 1878, pp. 259, 280, 299, 300, 319, 320, 360. 

 Notes on the habits of the less known Tetraonidce of oSTorth America. 



1878. Henshaw, H. W. Prairie chickens in Nevada. <^ Forest and Stream, x, Apr. 



11, 1878, p. 175. See p. 296. 

 Gupidonia cupido not extending its range westward. 

 1878. "J.N." A singular combat [between a male Tetrao canadensis and a dung- 

 hill Cock]. < Forest and Stream, x, Feb. 14, 1878, p. 18. 

 1878. Nelson, E. W. The Eock Ptarmigan (Lagopus rui^estris) in the Aleutian 



Islands. < Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Cluh, iii, No. 1, Jan., 1878, p. 38. 

 1878. Newton, A. [Remarks on Exhibition of a supposed hybrid between Lagopus 



scoticus and L. mutus. ] <^P.Z.S., Nov. 5, 1878, p. 793. 

 1878. "Penobscot." [Libbey, D. S.] Drumming of the Ruffed and Canada Grouse 



[Bonasa umbellus, Canace canadensis].- <^ Forest and Stream, xi, Sept. 19, 



1878, p. 131. 

 1878. " Ruffed Grouse." Habits of the Ruffed Grouse [Bonasa umbellus]. <^For- 



est and Stream, x, 1878, pp. 215, 274. See pp. 76, 117. 

 Letters also from "Awahsoose" (R. E. Eobinson), and "D. CM." 



1878. " Sanger." Two Sides to the Question [of preponderance of males over females 

 in Bonasa umbellus]. <^ Forest and Stream, ix, Jan. 31, 1878, p. 489. 



1878. "Snapshot." The Grouse Family [Tetraonidis] of Oregon, <^ San Francisco 

 Chronicle, Jan. 20, 1878. 

 Biographical. 



1878. Stearns, E. E. C. The Prairie Chicken in California. <^Am.Nat.,-sM, No. 2, 



1878, p. 124, 125. 

 Supposed to be Gupidonia — ^proved afterward to be Pedioecetes. 



1879, Anon. The Partridge fly. <^ Forest and' Stream, xi, Jan. 9, 1879, p. 462. 



Discussion by the editor, "Straight-bore" (Morton Eobinson), and C. H. Hope, of a para- 

 site of Bonasa umbellus, supposed to belong to genus Hippobosca. 



1879. Anon. The Euffed Grouse [Bonasa umbellus] : a semi-soliloquy. <^ The 

 Oologist, V, No. 1, July, 1879, p. 1. 

 Poem. 

 1879. Bendire, C. Notes on the Dusky Grouse (Canace obscurus). <^ The Oologist, 

 iv. No. 12, summer 1879 (extra number), pp. 98, 99. 

 From his paper on Birds of Southeastern Oregon, in Proc. Bost Nat. Hist. Soc. 



1879. B[rewer], T. M. Not Pinnated Grouse. <^ Forest and Stream, xi, Jan. 2, 1879, 

 p. 441. 

 Denying that Gupidonia cupido has strayed to the Pacific Slope. 

 1879. B[yers], W. N. The Sage Grouse [Centrocercus urophasianus]. <^Forestand 



Stream, xi, Jau. 2, 1879, p. 440. 

 1879. B[yers],W. N. The Flesh of the Sage Grouse [Centrocercus urophasianus]. 

 <^Forest and Stream, xii. May 22, 1879, p. 307. 



Eeply to editorial comments on previous article on this topic, the writer protesting against 

 the manner in which the discussion of the question was closed. 



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