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with dark mouse gray ; hind neck, sides of neck, and breast washed with 

 ochraceous-tawny ; ventral barring mummy brown. 



Dozvny young. — None seen. 



Adult male.— Wing 175-193 (182.7); tail 141-171 (157.7); culmen 

 from base 24.8-28.6 (26.6) ; tarsus 39.8-46.0 (42.7) ; middle toe without 

 claw 34.8-39.7 (37.6) ; unfeathered part of tarsus 15.7-28.8 (23.2 mm.).^^ 



Adult femaie.—Wing 173-182 (178.6) ; tail 124-134 (130.2) ; culmen 

 from base 23.5-27.0 (25.2) ; tarsus 39.6-43.4 (41.1) ; middle toe without 

 claw 34.4-37.5 (36.2) ; unfeathered part of tarsus 20.9-27.0 (23.8 mm.)." 



Range. — Subclimax deciduous woodlands of the Idahoan montane 

 forest (larch-pine association) of the Transition Zone, on the west slopes 

 of the Rocky Mountains in Idaho, west to northeastern Oregon in the 

 Blue Mountains, southeastern and northeastern Washington. Possibly it 

 extends farther into southeastern British Columbia, but no specimens 

 have been seen to establish this fact. 



Type locality. — Priest River, Idaho. 



Bonasa umbellus var. sabini Bendire, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., xix, 1877, 140 

 (Fort Lapwai, Idaho). 



Bonasa umbellus togata American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, 1886, 172, 

 No. 300a, part.— Merriam, North Amer. Fauna, No. 5, 1891, 93 (Salmon River 

 Mountains, south-central Idaho). — Benmre, Life Hist. North Amer. Birds, i, 

 1892, 64, part (Idaho).— Merrill, Auk, xiv, 1897, 352 (Fort Sherman, Idaho; 

 very abundant). — Snyder, Auk, xvii, 1900, 243 (Diamond Lake and Mount 

 Carleton, n. Washington). — Dawson and Bowles, Birds Washington, ii, 1909, 

 583, part (e. Washington). — Rust, Condor, xvii, 1915, 123 (Kootenai County, 

 Idaho). — (?) Dice, Auk, xxxv, 1918, 44 (Prescott, se. Washington; rare). 



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

 Birds, iii, 1874, 453, part. 



Bonasa umbellus umbelloides American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, ed. 4, 

 1931, 81, part.— Bent, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 162, 1932, 171, part (life hist.).— 

 Peters, Check-list Birds World, ii, 1934, 37, part. — Gabrielson and Jewett, 

 Birds Oregon, 1940, 214 part (Blue Mountains, Oreg. ; descr. ; habits). — Hell- 

 MAYR and CoNOVER, Cat. Birds Amer., i, No. 1, 1942, 216, part. 



B[onasa] u[mbellus] umbelloides Bailey, Handb. Birds Western United States, 

 1902, 128, part.- Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, ed. 5, ii, 1903, 742, part. 



B[omisa] u[inbella] umbelloides Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, rev. ed., 1896, 585, 

 part. 



Bonasa umbellus Hand, Condor, xliii, 1941, 225 (St. Joe National Forest, Idaho). 



Bonasa umbellus phaios Aldrich and Friedmann, Condor, xlv, 1943, 98 (Priest 

 River, Idaho; crit. ; tax.; descr.; distr.). 



BONASA UMBELLUS INCANA Aldrich and Friedmann 



Hoary Ruffed Grouse 



Adult (brown phase). — A very ashy bird, similar not to the brown 

 but to the gray phase of Bonasa umbellus umbellus, but paler and, except 



'" Thirty-four specimens from Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. 

 " Ten specimens from Washington and Idaho. 



