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Cooke, Colorado State Agr. Coll. Bull. 37, 1897, 71 (Colorado; Routt County). 

 —Cowan, Occ. Pap. British Columbia Prov. Mus., No. 1, 1939, 27 (mentioned). 

 — Snyber, Auk, Ivi, 1939, 184 (distr.). 



PedicBcetes p[hasianelltis] columbiamis Brooks, Auk, xxiv, 1907, 167, pi. 4 (hybrid). 



[Pedioscetes phasianellus] columhianus D wight, Auk, xvii, 1900, 164 (molt). 



Pediocaetes phasianellus (not of Linnaeus) Baikd, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 

 1858, 626, part.— Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 1860, 

 626, part.— Cooper and Suckley, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., xii, book 2, pt. 3, 

 1860, 223 (plains of the Columbia River, Wash.). 



Pedioecetes phasianellus Munro, Condor, xlii, 1940, 168 (young eaten by sharp- 

 shinned hawk; Brit. Columbia).— Hand, Condor, xliii, 1941, 225 (St. Joe 

 Natl. Forest, Idaho). 



Pediocaetes phasianellus campestris American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list 

 1886, No. 308b, part.— Ridgway, Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, 204, part— 

 Bendire, Life Hist. North Amer. Birds, i, 1892, 101, part.— Sclater, Hist. 

 Birds Colorado, 1912, 152, part (sw. Colorado). 



PEDIOECETES PHASIANELLUS CAMPESTRIS Kideway 



Prairie Sharp-tailed Grouse 



Adult. — The most rufescent of all the races of the species; similar to 

 the corresponding sex (and season) of P. p. jamesi but much more ru- 

 fescent above, the buckthorn brown of the latter form being replaced 

 by ochraceous-tawny to hazel in the present race, and with the white 

 marks and spots greatly reduced. 



Juvenal. — Similar to that oi P. p. jamesi but the upperparts somewhat 

 more rufescent — ochraceous-tawny. 



Downy young. — None seen. 



Adult male.— Wing 194-216 (206.2); tail 109-112 (110.5); culmen 

 from anterior end of nostril 11.1-12.8 (12.0) ; tarsus 45.1-^8.6 (46.6) ; 

 middle toe without claw 39.5-42.7 (41.3) ; height of bill at base 12.2- 

 13.5 (12.8 mm.).s 



Adult female.— Wing 199-210 (202.5); tail 116-116 (116); culmen 

 from anterior end of nostril 11.6-12.3 (11.9) ; tarsus 44.5-^5.0 (44.7) ; 

 middle toe without claw 38.7-40.2 (39.4) ; height of bill at base 11.9-13.0 

 (12.5 mm.). 6 



Range. — Resident from southeastern Manitoba, southern and western 

 Ontario, east to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and south throughout 

 Minnesota (now chiefly in the northern half of the State) and north- 

 western Wisconsin (Pitcher Lake, Marston), and (formerly) to northern 

 Illinois. In winter to northwestern Iowa (Polk, Tama, Bremer, Butler, 

 Franklin, Webster, Kossuth, and O'Brien Counties). One record for 

 Indiana (Tremont). 



Type locality. — Illinois, and Rosebud Creek, Montana=Illinois. 



° Fourteen specimens from Wisconsin and Minnesota. 

 ' Four specimens from Wisconsin and Illinois. 



