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Pedioecetes phasianellus jamesi Lincoln, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xxx, 1917, 84 

 (Castle Rock, Douglas County, Colo.; descr. ; crit.).— Peters, Check-list Birds 

 of World, ii, 1934, 40 (c. and e. Colorado).— Snyder, Univ. Toronto Studies, biol. 

 ser.. No. 40, 1935, 4, 40 in text, 56 (crit.; monogr.) ; Occ. Papers Roy. Ontario 

 Mus. Zool., No. 2, 1935, 6 (crit.; monogr.).— Friedmann, Journ. Washington 

 Acad. Sci., xxxiii, 1943, 191 (crit.). 



Pedioscetes phasianellus jamesi Oberholser, Auk, xxxv, 1918, 206 (foothills of 

 Rocky Mountains from Colorado to Wyoming). 



P[edioecetes] p[hasianellus] jamesi Snyder, Auk, Ivi, 1939, 185 (distr.).— Niedrach 

 and Rockwell, Birds Denver and Mountain Parks, 1939, 64, in text. 



pedioecetes phasianellus columbianus (ord) 



Columbian Sharp-tailed Grouse 



Adult. — Similar to the corresponding sex of P. p. jamesi but usually 

 duller, the brown areas above pale, grayish tawny-olive instead of buck- 

 thorn brown, the bill smaller and the tail shorter; iris hazel inclining to 

 olive; "comb" medium cadmium; maxilla dusky brownish; mandible with 

 basal half buffy ; toes brownish gray ; claws dusky brown. 



Juvenal. — Indistinguishable from that of P- p. jamesi. 



Dozvny young. — Indistinguishable from that of P. p. jamesi. 



Adult male.— Wing 194-210 (202.4); tail 103-117 (109.2); culmen 

 from anterior end of nostril 10.5-12.1 (11.3) ; tarsus 40.8-44.0 (42.0) ; 

 middle toe and claw 37.1-40.2 (38.3) ; height of bill at base 11.5-12.8 

 (12.1 mm.). 3 



Adult jemale.—Wmg 186-201 (194.5); tail 92-113 (104.2); culmen 

 from anterior end of nostril 10.0-13.0 (11.1); tarsus 38.5-42.0 (40.5); 

 middle toe without claw 35.3-38.8 (37.0) ; height of bill at base 11.3-12.8 

 (12.0 mm.).* 



Range. — Resident from British Columbia (except extreme northern 

 edge; from Cariboo District to the Okanagan region, Kamloops, etc., 

 in the lowlands of the interior between the Cascades and the Rocky Moun- 

 tains), south through extreme western Montana, Idaho (Blue Springs 

 Hills; Fort Lapwai), Washington and Oregon east of the Cascades, to 

 northeastern California (Modoc County — formerly) ; northeastern 

 Nevada (Elko County; Bull Run Mountains; Upper Humboldt Valley; 

 Trout Creek, Clover Mountains) ; western and the southern half or so 

 of Utah (Wasatch Mountains, Salt Lake City, etc.) to western to south- 

 central Colorado (Routt County south to Garfield, San Miguel, Dolores, 

 Montezuma, and Archuleta Counties), to New Mexico. 



Introduced into Lucas County, Ohio. 



Type locality. — Great Plains of the Columbia River. 



' Fifteen specimens from Washington, Oregon, Idaho ; virestern Montana ; Colo- 

 rado ; and California. 

 * Twelve specimens from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and western Montana. 



