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CouES, Check-list North Amer. Birds, 1873, No. 381, part) ; Birds Northwest, 

 1874, 395, part (Deer Creek, Bitter Cottonwood Creek, and Laramie Peak, 

 Wyo.).— Henshaw, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, xi, 1874, 10 (Utah).— 

 Nelson, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., xvii, 1875, 347 (Salt Lake City, 

 Utah).— Drew, Bull. Nuttall Om. Club, vi, 1881, 142 (San Juan County, Colo.). 



[Tetrao] obscurus Reichenbach, SjTiop. Av., iii, Gallinaceae, 1848, pi. 215, figs. 

 1887-1889.— Gr.\y, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 276, No. 9823, part.— Cotres, Key North 

 Amer. Birds, 1872, 233, part. 



Cattace obscura Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xlv, 1857, 428. — Ridgway, Bull. Essex 

 Inst, V, 1873, 186 (Colorado; pine region); vii, 1875, 22 (e. slope E. Humboldt 

 Mountains), 34 (Parleys Peak, Wahsatch Mountains), 39 (Nevada) ; Om. 40th 

 Paral., 1877, 598, part (Wahsatch and Uintah Mountains, Utah) ; Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 196, part; Norn. North Amer. Birds, 1881, No. 471, part.— 

 CouES, Check-list North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1882, No. 557, part.— Henshaw, 

 Auk, iii, 1886, 80 (upper Pecos River, N. Mex.). 



C[anace] obscura CouES, Key North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1884, 579, part. 



Canace obscurus B.\ird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. North Amer. Birds, iii, 1874, 

 pi. 59, figs. 1, 2.— Bendire, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., xix, 1877, 137 (se. 

 Oregon; common; habits; eggs). 



Canace obscurus, var. obscurus Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. North Amer. 

 Birds, iii, 1874, 422, part (except from Sierra Nevada). 



Canace obscura obscura Goode, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 20, 1883, 310. 



Dendragapus obscurus Elliot, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1864, 23 ; !Monogr. 

 Tetraon., 1865, pi. 7 and text. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, 

 No. 297, part, 1886; ed. 2, 1895. No. 297, part.— Cooke, Bird Migr. Mississippi 

 \'alley, 1888, 103 (Black Hills) ; Colorado State Agr. Coll. Bull. 37, 

 1897, 70 (Colorado) ; Bull. 56, 1900, 202 (Colorado; breeds; Breckenridge).— 

 Mearns, Auk, vii, 1890, 52 (White Mountains, east-central Arizona). — Ben- 

 dire, Life Hist. North Amer. Birds, i, 1892, 41, part. — Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., xxii, 1893, 74, part (excl. synonymy, part, and specimens, part). — 

 Mitchell, Auk, xv, 1898, 307 (San Miguel County, N. I^Iex., breeding at 10,000 

 feet). — Macoun, Cat. Can. Birds, 1900, 198 (Montana and Idaho). — Gary, 

 Auk, xviii, 1901, 232 (Black Hills, \\yo.).— B-\iley, Handb. Birds ^^'estem 

 United States, 1902, 124, part; Auk, xxi, 1904, 351 (upper Pecos River, N. Mex.; 

 food, etc.).— Jltdd, U. S. Biol. Surv, Bull. 24, 1905, 41-44, part— Oilman. 

 Condor, ix, 1907, 153 (n. slope La Plata ilountains, sw. Colo.). — Henderson, 

 Univ. Colorado Stud. Zool., \i, 1909, 228 (Boulder Counh', Colo., in moun- 

 tains). — ^''ISHER, Auk, xxvi, 1909, 145 (hills, w. South Dakota; fairly com- 

 mon). — ScLATER, Hist. Birds of Colorado, 1912, 145 (Colorado; resident).^ 

 Tanner, Condor, xxix, 1927, 197 (Pine Valley Mountains, Utah). — Palmer, 

 Condor, xxx, 1928, 295 in text. — Lee, Condor, xxxviii, 1936, 122' in text 

 (female with 5 chicks, near Paradise, Utah; July). — MoxsoN, Condor, xli, 

 1939, 117 (Lukachukai Mountains, N. Mex., Oct. 26, 1937; pair seen; rare). 



Deiuiragopus obscurus Taverner, Birds Western Canada, 1926, 164, pi. 21 B (fig.; 

 descr. ; distr. w. Can.) ; Birds Canada, 1934, 152 in text (distr.) ; Can. Water 

 Birds, 1939, 164.— Petrides, Trans. 7th North Amer. \\'ildlife Conf., 1942, 

 313 in text (age indicators in plumage). 



D[eiidragapus] obscurus Ridgw.ay, Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, 195, part. 



[Deiuiragapus] obscurus Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 20, part. 



Dendragapus obscurus obscurus American Ornithologists' Union, Check-Hst, 

 ed. 3, 1910, 138, ed. 4, 1931, 78 (distr.).— (?) Saunders, Auk. xxviii, 1911, 

 35 (Gallatin County, }.Iont. ; crit.). — Betts, Univ. Colorado Stud. Zool., x, 

 1913, 191 (Boulder Count}-, Colo.). — Gra\-e and \\'alker, Birds Wyoming, 



