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from dark cream to brownish buff. Many are unmarked ; others 

 are very sparingly speckled with deep reddish brown or purplish 

 brown. They measure from 1-63 to 1*77 in length, and from 1-22 

 to 1-26 in breadth. 



4. [N. America.] Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1. Yukon, Alaska, 29th May Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{J. Lockhart: Smiths. Inst.). 

 4. Fort Yukon, Alaska {S. Jones : Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Henshaw Coll.). 

 1. Fort Resolution. B. R. Ross, Esq. [P.]. 



1. Carlton, t anada, 21st May (C<5)<. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Blakistoii). 



Pedioecetes columbianus {Ord). 



Pedioecetes phasianellus, var. columbianus, Baird, Brewer >§• Ridgw. N. 



Amer. Birds, iii. p. 436 (1874). 

 Pedioecetes phasianelliis columbianus, Coucs, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. iv. 



p. 680 (1878). 

 PediocBBtes phasianellus columbianus, Bendire, Life Hist. N. A. Birds, i. 



p. 98, pi. iii. figs. 6-8 (1892). 

 Pediocajtes columbianus,. ffrawi. Cat. Birds B. M. xxii. p. 83 (1893). 

 Pedicecetes columbianus, Hharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 20 (1899). 



The three eggs of the Columbian Sharp-tailed Grouse in the 

 Collection are of a dark buff-colour, very minutely speckled with 

 dark brown over the whole shell. They can be matched very closely 

 by some of the eggs of P. phasianellus. They measure respectively : 

 1-65 by 1-2; 1-6 by 1-2 ; 1-65 by 1-18. 



3. Pembina, Dakota, 11th June Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{E. Coues; Smiths. Inst.). 



Genus BONASA, Steph. 



Bouasa nmbellus (Linn.). 



Tetrao umbeUus, Thien. Fort/pjlanz. ges. Vog. p. 45, tab. ix. fig. 4 (1845-54). 

 Eouasia umbellus, Baedeker, Bier Eur. Vog. tab. 77. fig. 5 (1855-63). 

 Bonasa umbellus, Boss, Nat. Hist. Rev. 1862, p. 283; Bendire, Life Kist. 



N. A. Birds, i. p. 59, pi. ii. fig. 1 (1892) ; Grant, Oat. Birds B. M. 



xxii. p. 85 (1893) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 21 (1899). 

 Bonasa umbellus, var. umbellus, Baird, Brewer 8f Ridgw. N. Amer. Birds. 



iii. p. 448 (1874). 

 Bonasa umbellus, var. umbelloides ', iid. t. c. p. 453. 

 Bonasa umbeUus, var. sabini, iid. t. c. p. 454. 

 Bonasa umbellus togata, Bendire, Life Hist. N. A. Birds, i. p. 64, pi. ii. 



fig. 2. 

 Bonasa umbellus umbelloides, id. t. c. p. 67, pi. ii. fig. 3. 

 Bonasa umbellus sabini, id. t. c. p. 68, pi. ii. fig. 4. 

 Bonasa togata, Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 21 (1899). 

 Bonasa umbelJoides, id. t. c. p. 21. 

 Bonasa sabinei, i(i. t. c. p. 21. 



* I follow Mr. Grant in uniting all the races of this species. Dr. Sharpe 

 keeps them separate, but quotes ProfeBsor Coues to the oBect that B. togata 

 cannot be upheld, though i. mnbelloides atd B. sabinei are fairly recognizable. 



