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■MIDDLE AMERICA 197 



middle toe without claw 36.3-42.8 (39.1) ; height of bill at base 12.4-15.0 

 (13.4 mm.).i 



Adult female.— Wing 195-221 (205.9) ; tail 103-130 (114.8) ; culmen 

 from anterior end of culmen 10.4-13.0 (12.0) ; tarsus 40.0-46.2 (43.2) ; 

 middle toe without claw 35.6-41.8 (38.5) ; height of bill at base 11.4-14.3 

 (12.7 mm.). 2 



i?aw^^.— Resident in the Great Plains from north-central Alberta (Lac 

 La Biche, Sturgeon River, Saskatchewan River, Athabaska Lake, Ed- 

 monton, etc.); north-central Saskatchewan (Cumberland House; St. 

 Louis) and the southwestern part of Manitoba (Carberry) ; south 

 through Montana (except the extreme western part) and the Dakotas, 

 Wyoming to western Nebraska and east-central Colorado, and, formerly 

 to western Kansas and the "Panhandle" of northwestern Oklahoma. 



Type locality. — Castle Rock, Douglas County, Colo. 



Tetrao phasianellus Sabine, Append. Franklin's Joum., 1823, 681, part. — Bonaparte, 

 Syn., 1828, 127, part.— Audubon, Orn. Biogr., iv, 1838, 569, part, pi. 382 ; Synop- 

 sis, 1839, 20S, part; Birds Araer., 8vo ed., 1842, v, 110, pi. 298, part.— Maxi- 

 milian, Journ. fur Orn., 1858, 435 (Missouri River). 



[Tetrao] columhiarms Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 276, no. 9830, part. 



Pedioecetes phasianellus Snow, Cat. Birds Kansas, 1873, ed. 2, reprint, 9 (central 

 and western Kansas). — Youngsworth, Wils. Bull., xlvii, 1935, 217 (Fort Sis- 

 seton, S. Dak.; present in small numbers). — Clarke, Nat. Mus. Canada, Bull. 



96, 1940, 49 (Thelon Game Sanctuary, northwestern Canada). 



Pedicecetes phasianellus Blakiston, Ibis, 1862, 8 (Forks of the Saskatchewan). — 

 Macoun and Macoun, Cat. Can. Birds, 1909, 230, part. — Stansell, Auk, xxvi, 

 1909, 393, (central Alberta) .—Taverner, Auk, xxxvi, 1919, 13 (Red Deer River, 

 Alberta) . 



Pediocaetes phasianellus Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 626, part. — Baird, 

 Cassin, and Lawrence, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 1860, 626, part. — Elliot, Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1862, 403, part. — Snow, Cat. Birds Kansas, ed. 2, 

 1872, 12 (Kansas; common) .—Trippe, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., xv, 1872, 

 240 in text (Iowa ; Nebraska).— Bendire, Life Hist. North Amer. Birds, i, 1892, 



97, part.— Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxii, 1893, 82, part. 

 Pedioecetes phasianellus American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, 1886, No. 



308, part; ed. 2, 1895, 116, part.— Nutting, Bull. Lab. Nat. Hist., State Univ. 



Iowa, ii, 1893, 267 (Lower Saskatchewan River; abundant; plum, of young). — 



Macoun, Cat. Can. Birds, 1900, 210, part. 

 Pedioecetes phasianellus phasianellus American Ornithologists'' Union, Check-lisl, 



ed. 3, 1910, 144, part. 

 Pedioecetes phasianellus phasianellus Taverner, Birds Western Canada, 1926, 172 



in text, part ; Birds Canada, 1934, 161 in text, part. 

 ? PedicEcetes urophasianellus Blakiston, Ibis, 1863, 127. 

 Pediocetes phasianellus campestris Cooke, Colorado State Agr. Coll. Bull. 56, 1900, 



203 (Colorado; Middle Park; breeds; distr.). — Cowan, Occ. Pap. British Co- 



^ Thirty-four specimens from Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Montana, the 

 Dakotas, and Nebraska. 



' Fifty-two specimens from Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Montana, Wyoming, 

 and the Dakotas. 



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