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mainland (Glacier Bay, Juneau) ; south to Porcher Island and the Queen 

 Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. 



Type locality. — Kupreanof Island, southeastern Alaska. 



Tclrao ohscums (not of Say) Dall and Bannister, Trans. Chicago Acad. Sci., 

 i, 1869, 287 (Sitka, Alaska) .—Finsch, Abh. Nat. Ver. Bremen, iii, 1872, 61 

 (Sitka, Alaska).— CouES, Check List North American Birds, 1873, No. 381, 

 part.— SCHALOW, Journ. fiir Orn., 1891, 258 (Kittlitz specimen from Alaska). 



[Tetrao] abscurus Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, 1872, 233, part. 



Canace ohscura, var. fuUginosa Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., v, 1873, 199, part (Sitka). 



Canace obscura fuUginosa Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 196, part; 

 Nom. North Amer. Birds, 1881, No. 471a, part.— Coues, Check List North 

 Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1882, No. SS9, part. 



Canace obscurus, var. fuliginosus Baied, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. North 

 Amer. Birds, iii, 1874, 42S, part (Sitka). 



C[anace] o[bscura] fuUginosa Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1884, S80, part. 



Tetrao obscurus . . . var. fuUginosa Coues, Check List North Amer. Birds, 1874, 

 App., 133, No. 381b (Sitka only). 



Tetrao obscurus fuliginosus Hartlaub, Journ. fiir Orn., 1883, 27S (Portage Bay, 

 Alaska). — Schalow, Journ. fiir Orn., 1891, 258 in text. 



Dendragapus obscurus fuliginosus Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 355, 

 part. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, 1886, No. 297a, part; 

 ed. 2, 1895, No. 297a, part; ed. 3, 1910, 138, part.— Bendire, Auk, vi, 1889, 

 32, part (Sitka); Life Hist. North Amer. Birds, i, 1892, 43, part (Sitka).— 

 Bishop, North Amer. Fauna, No. 19, 1900, 71, part (above Glacier, Alaska). — 

 Macoun, Cat. Can. Birds, 1900, 198, part (Sitka). — Osgood, North Amer. 

 Fauna, No. 21, 1901, 42 (Cumshewa Inlet and adjacent mountains up to 3,000 

 feet; Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia). — Bailey, Handb. Birds 

 Western United States, 1902, 125, part. — Macoun and Macoun, Cat. Can. 

 Birds, ed. 2, 1909, 216, part (Sitka). — Grinnell, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 

 V, 1909, 203 (Admiralty, Baranof, and Chichagof Islands and Glacier Bay, se. 

 Alaska; crit. ; habits; descr. nest and eggs). — Swarth, Univ. CaUfornia Publ. 

 Zool., vii, 1911, 56 (Kuiu, Kupreanof, Mitkof, Coronation, and Etolin Islands, 

 Boca de Quadra, and Thomas Bay, se. Alaska; absent from island s. south 

 of Sumner Strait and west of Clarence Strait; habits). — Brooks, Bull. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., lix, 1915, 366 (Point Gustavus, Glacier Bay, se. Alaska). 



D[endragapus] obscurus fuliginosus Ridgway, Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, 

 196, part (Sitka). 



D[endragapus] o[bscurus] fuliginosus Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 XX, 1904, 160, part (Sitka, Alaska). 



Dendragapus fuliginosus Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxii, 1893, 75, 

 part (Sitka). 



[Dendragapus] fuliginosus Shakpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 20, part (Sitka). 



[Dendragapus obscurus] subsp. a. Dendragapus fuliginosus Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., xxii, 1893, 75, part (Sitka). 



Dendragapus obscurus sitkensis Swarth, Condor, xxiii, 1921, 59 (Kupreanof Island, 

 25 miles south of Kaka Village, se, Alaska; coll. Mus. Vert. Zool.); Univ. 

 California Publ. Zool., xxiv, 1922. 205 (Mitkof Island, se. Alaska).— Obes- 

 HOLSER, Auk, xxxix, 1922, 246 (se. Alaska) .—Brooks, Auk, xl, 1923, 220 

 (Porcha Island, British Columbia; crit.). — Bailey, Auk, xliv, 1927, 197 (se. 

 Alaska — Kupreanof Island; Douglas Island; near Juneau; Oliver Inlet; 

 Wrangell ; Point Couverton ; Berg Bay ; Mount Robert ; McGinnis Creek ; 

 Salmon Creek; Seymour Canal; Point Retreat; habits). — Gumming, Murrelet, 



