iiiKua ijn- jMj±tr±i j\.ssu MIDDLE AMERICA 187 



742, part.— Saunders, Condor, xiv, 1912, 25 in text (sw. Montana, at lower 

 elevations).— CoNOVER, Condor, xxxvii, 193S, 204 in text, 206, part (spec; Al- 

 berta; British Columbia; Manitoba, Saskatchewan).— Uttal, Auk, Iviii, 1941, 

 75, 76 in text (tarsal feathering). 



B[onasa] u[mbella] umhelloides Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, rev. ed., 1896, 585, 

 part. 



[Bonasa mnbellus] umhelloides Uttal, Auk, Iviii, 1941, 75, 76, 77, 78 in text (tarsal 

 feathering) . 



Bonasa umbellus togata Bendire, Life Hist. North Amer. Birds, i, 1892, 64, part. — 

 Nutting, Bull. Lab. Nat. Hist. State Univ. Iowa, ii, 1893, 266 (lower Sas- 

 katchewan River). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, ed. 2, 1895, 

 111; ed. 3, 1910, 140, part; ed. 4, 1931, 81, part.— Macoun, Cat. Can. Birds, 1900, 

 202, part. — Fleming, Auk, xviii, 1901, 37 (Parry Sound and Muskoka, Ontario; 

 plentiful). — Bailey, Handbook Birds Western United States, 1902, 127, part. — 

 Brooks, Auk, xx, 1903, 281 (Cariboo District, British Columbia).— Seton, Auk, 

 xxv, 1908, 71 (Fort Resolution; not seen or heard east of Great Slave Delta). — 

 Stansell, Auk, xxvi, 1909, 393 (nw. Edmonton, Alberta; very common). — 

 Macoun and Macoun, Cat. Can. Birds, ed. 2, 1909, 220, part (Cariboo District, 

 British Columbia). — Townsend and Bent, Auk, xxvii, 1910, 13 (Natashquan and 

 Betchewun, Labrador). — Saunders, Auk, xxviii, 1911, 35 (Gallatin County, 

 Mont.; abundant) ; Condor, xiv, 1912, 25 (sw. Montana; common) ; xviii, 1916, 

 86 in text (Flathead Lake, Montana) ; Pacific Coast Avif., No. 14, 1921, 57 

 (Montana; common; distr. ; habits). — Macnamara, Ottawa Nat., xxvi, 1912, 

 101, in text, part. — Townsend, Auk, xxx, 1913, 6 (Labrador, Natashquan River). 

 — Rust, Condor, xix, 1917, 32 (Freemont County, Idaho — Little Dry Creek 

 Canyon, and near Rea Post Office). — Burleigh, Auk, xxxviii, 1921, 553 (War- 

 land, Lincoln County, Mont.; common in the valleys). — Rowan, Auk, xxxix, 

 1922, 227 (Indian Bay, Lake of the Woods, Manitoba) .—Mitchell, Can. Field 

 Nat., xxxviii, 1924, 108 (Saskatchewan; common resident). — Taverner, Birds 

 Western Canada, 1926, 167 in text, part; Birds Canada, 1934, 155 in text, part. — 

 Bent, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 162, 1932, 166, part (Manitoba).— Hellmayr and 

 CoNovER, Cat. Birds Amer., i, No. 1, 1942, 214, part (n. Quebec, n. Ontario). 



B[oitasa\ umbellus togata Ridgwav, Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, 198, part (Moose 

 Factory). 



B[onasa] ulmbellus] togata Saunders, Condor, xvi, 1914, 131 in text (s. Montana). — ■ 

 Taverner, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. SO, 1928, 92 (near Belvedere, Alberta; spec). 



Bonasa umbellus canescens Todd (not "Bonasa canescens Sparrm.'' Menzbier, Vog. 

 Russl., i, 1895, 480), Auk, Ivii, 1940, 395 (Abitibi River, n. Ontario ; descr. ; distr. ; 

 crit), 396 (distr.). 



Blonasa] u[mbellus'\ canescens Uttal, Auk, Iviii, 1941, 74 in text (tarsal feathering). 



Genus PEDIOECETES Baird 



Pedioecetes Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, xxi, xliv. (Type, by monotypy, 



Tetrao phasianellus Linnaeus.) 

 Pediocates (emendation) Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 625. 

 Pediaecaetes (emendation) Elliot, Proc Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1864, 23. 

 Pediecwtes (emendation) Elliot, Monogr. Tetraonidae, 1865, Introd., 5. 

 Pediocatus (emendation) Sundevall, Tentamen, 1873, 114. 

 Pediocoetus (emendation) Sundevall, Tentamen, 1873, 176. 

 Pedioscetes (emendation) Sclater, Ibis, 1863, 109, footnote. 



Medium-sized terrestrial grouse (length about 381-483 mm.) with 

 neither elongated feathers nor air sacs on sides of neck and with the 



