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feet), 375 (Canadian and Transition Zone, 2,000 to 5,000 feet and above).— 

 Smyth, Auk, xxix, 1912, 514 (Montgomery County, Va.).— Bailey, Birds 

 Virginia, 1913, 88 (Virginia; habits, etc.).— Brooks, Auk, xxxi, 1914, 544 (Rich 

 Mountains, W. Va.) ; Wils. Bull, xlii, 1930, 246 (Cranberry Glades, W. Va.).— 

 Pearson, Brimley, and Brimley, Birds North Carolina, 1919, 153 (North 

 Carolina; distr. ; habits).— Howell, Birds Alabama, 1924, 119; ed. 2, 1928, 

 119 (Alabama; habits).— Blincoe, Auk, xlii, 1925, 408 (Bardstown, Ky.).— 

 Sutton, Birds Pennsylvania, 1928, 53 part (w. Pennsylvania).— Pickens, Wils. 

 Bull., xl, 1928, 189 (upper South Carolina) .—Bent, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 162, 

 1932, 141 part (life hist.).— Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 40, part. 

 —Hudson and Sherman, Auk, liii, 1936, 311 (South Carolina; still present 

 but reduced in numbers in Pickens and Oconee Counties). — Van Tyne, Occ. 

 Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, No. 379, 1938, 11 (Michigan; south of range 

 B. u. togata). — Campbell, Bull. Toledo Mus. Sci., i, 1940, 61 (Lucas County, 

 Ohio; now extirpated; last record is 1905). — Trautman, Misc. Publ. Mus. 

 Zool. Univ. Michigan Mus. Zool., No. 44, 1940, 223 (Buckeye Lake, Ohio; 

 formerly common, now extirpated). — Todd, Birds Western Pennsylvania, 1940, 

 168 (w. Pennsylvania; descr., habits, syn.) ; Auk, Ivii, 1940, 390 in text (spec, 

 w. Pennsylvania; crit.), 396 (distr.). — Goodpaster, Journ. Cincinnati Soc. Nat. 

 Hist., xxii, 1941, 13 (sw. Ohio — only one known record — Clermont County, 

 October 1878).— Burleigh, Auk, Iviii, 1941, 337 (Mount Mitchell, N. C; 

 young). — Hellmayr and Conover, Cat. Birds Amer., :, No. 1, 1942, 215, part. 



Bonasa umbellus var. umbellus Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. North Amer. 

 Birds, iii, 1874, 448, part. 



B[onasa\ u[mhellus] umbellus Hicks, Wils. Bull., xlv, 1933, 179 (Ashtabula 

 County, Ohio). 



[Bonasa] [umbellus] timbellus Wheaton, Rep. Birds Ohio, 1882, 447. 



Bonasa umbellus togata Wetmore, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxxiv, 1937, 406, 407 

 (West Virginia ; many records ; crit. ; ranges s. to the mountains of n. Georgia) ; 

 Ixxxvi, 1939, 183 (Tennessee; spec, from Shady Valley, Roan Mountain, and 

 Mount Guyot; sev. sight records) ; Ixxxviii, 1940, 535 (Kentucky; near Mount 

 Vernon). — Pearson, Brimley, and Brimley, Birds North Carolina, 1942, 107 

 (North Carolina; descr.; habits). 



Bonasa umbellus monticola Todd, Auk, Ivii, 1940, 392 (Cheat Bridge, W. Va. ; 

 descr., range, crit.), 396 (distr.). — Aldrich and Friedmann, Condor, xlv, 1943, 

 94 (tax.; descr.; distr.). 



B[onasa] u[mbellus'\ monticola Uttal, Auk, Iviii, 1941, 74 in text (tarsal feathering). 



BONASA UMBELLUS SABINI (Doaglas) • 



Pacific Ruffed Grouse 



Adult (brown phase) . — Similar to that of Bonasa umbellus umbellus but 

 much more darkly and richly colored (darker and richer than B. u. 

 monticola also) ; the black markings above more extensive and conspicu- 

 ous, the areas which are sayal brown to cinnamon-brown in umbellus be- 

 ing orange-cinnamon, cinnamon-rufous, or hazel, those that are cinnamon- 

 brown to dark Brussels brown in umbellus are bright dark amber brown 

 to rufescent argus brown ; rectrices bright amber brown ; ventral barrings 

 darker — dark Dresden brown narrowly edged with fuscous, the lateral 

 bars (on sides and flanks darker still) — mummy brown to clove brown; 

 thighs darker — wood brown to avellaneous tinged with cinnamon-buff. 



