BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 83 



Range. — Resident in coniferous forests from southern Yukon (Lake 

 Teslin), the Stikine region of Alaska, southwestern Mackenzie, south 

 through British Columbia (east of the range of D. o. fuliginosus, south 

 to the Okanagan Valley) and Alberta (east as far as Liard River, Fort 

 Simpson, Henry House, Jasper House, Moose Pass, etc.) to all of 

 Idaho,®' the western half or so of Montana (Belt Mountains; Judith 

 Mountains; west side of Rocky Mountains; Gallatin County); and to 

 northwestern Wyoming (Yellowstone Park, Teton Pass, Jackson, Big 

 Horn Mountains, Salt River Mountains, Kendall, etc.). 



Type locality. — " . . subalpine regions of the Rocky Mountains, 



in lat. 52° N., long. 115° \\'. . the mountainous districts o^ the 



Columbia in lat. 48° N., long. 118° W."; restricted to vicinity of Ket- 

 tle Falls, Stevens County, ^^'ashington, by Hall, Murrelet, xv, Jan- 

 uary 1934, 9. 



T[etrao] riclujrdsonii DoUGL.^s, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, xvi, 1829, 141 ("subalpine 

 regions of the rocky Mountains in lat. S2° N., long. 115° W." . . . "mountainous 

 districts of the river Columbia in lat. 48° N., long. 118° W."; ex Sabine, manu- 

 script; crit.). 



Tetrao richardsonii 'VS'ilson, Illustr. Zool., 1831, pis. 30, 31, — Lord, Proc. Roy. Artil. 

 Inst. Woolwich, i, 1863, 122.— Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., pt. S, Galling, 

 1867, 86 (Fort Halkett; Fort Simpson). — B.\ird, m Cooper, Orn. California, 

 Land Birds, 1870, 528 (crit.), part. — ^Ierriam, 6th Ann. Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv., 

 1873, 711 (Teton Canyon, Idaho; breeding). 



[Tetrao] richardsonii Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 276, No. 9824. 



Tetrao richardsoni Lesson, Traite d'Om., 1831, 502. 



[Tetrao] riclmrdsoni Baird, Ibis, 1867, 271. 



Dendragapus richardsoni Elliot, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1864, 23 ; 

 Monogr. Tetraonidae, 1865, pi. 8, and text. — Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xxii, 1893, 76 (Fort Halkett ; Fort Simpson; Fort Dufferin; Teton Canyon, 

 and Chief Mountain Lake, Mont.). — Brooks (A.), Auk, xxix, 1912, 252 

 (Selkirk Range and Rocky Mountains, British Columbia; crit.). — Palmer, 

 Condor, xxx, 1928, 227, in text. 



[Dendragapus] richardsoni Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 20, part. 



Dendragapus richardsonii Jewett, Auk, xxvi, 1909, 5 (Baker County, Oreg. ; 

 abundant; nests in April and May). 



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

 355.— Preble, North Amer. Fauna, No. 27, 1908, 336 (Jilount Thu-on-tliu. 

 near mouth of Nahami River ; foothills west of Fort Simpson ; mountains 

 along Liard River ; Fort Halkett ; Fort Simpson ; Jasper House, Alberta ; Henry 

 House; Fort Providence). — American Ornithologists' L^nion, Check-list, 

 ed. 3, 1910, 138, part; ed. 4, 1931, 79, part (distr.).— Dice, Auk, xx\-ii, 1910, 

 217 (Snake River, Wash,; not imcommon).- — Riley, Can. Alpine Journ., 1912, 

 55 (Moose Pass, British Columbia; plum.; food). — Gr.ue and W.\lker, Birds 

 Wyoming, 1913, 89 (Wyoming). — Munro, Auk, xxxvi, 1919, 65 Ofanagan 

 Valley, British Columbia; abundant resident; habits, etc.). — Burleigh, Auk, 

 xxxviii, 1921, 553 (Warland, Mont, ; scarce). — Saunders, Pacific Coast Avif., 

 No. 14, 1921, 55 (Montana; in the mountains). — Brooks, Auk, xliii, 1926, 281 

 in text, pis. x-xi (courtship habits) ; Auk, xlvi, 1929, 112 in text (tax., crit.). — 



" In western Idaho the birds are somewhat intermediate between this form and 

 pallidus, the females tending toward pallidus and tlie males being closer to richardsoni. 



