144 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Tympanuchus pallidicinctus (Ridgway). Lesser Prairie Chicken. 

 [307.] 



Cupidonia cupido var. pallididncta Ridgwat, Bull. Essex Inst., V, Dec, 

 1873, 199. (Prairies of Texas, near Lat. 32° N.) 



Range. — Great Plains, from Kansas south to west central Texas. 



Genus PEDKECETES Baird. 



Pedicecetes Baird, Rep. Expl. & Surv. R. R. Pac, IX, 1858, xxi, xliv, 

 619, 625. Type, by orig. desig., Tetrao phaaianeUus Linn.eus. 



Pedicecetes phasiangllus (Linn^us). 



Range. — Central and western North America from central Alaska 

 and Ungava to northeastern California and Illinois. 



a. Pedicecetes phasianellus phasianellus (Linn.s:its). Sharp-tailed Grouse. 



[308.] 



Tetrao phasianellus Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 160. (Hudson 

 Bay.) 



Range. — Central Alaska and northwestern British Columbia east through 

 central Keewatin to central western Ungava, and south to Lake Superior and 

 the Parry Sound district, Ontario; casual east to Saguenay River, Quebec. 



b. Fedifficetes phasianellus columbianus (Ord). Columbian Sharp-tailed 



Grouse. [308a.] 



Phasianus columbianus Okd, in Guthrie's Geog., 2d Am. ed., 1815, 317. 

 (Great plains of the Columbia River.) 



Range. — Central British Columbia and central Alberta south to north- 

 eastern California, Utah, and central Colorado. 



c. Pedicecetes phasianellus camp^gtiis Ridgwat. Prairie Sharp-tailed Grouse. 



[3086.] 



Pedicecetes phasianellus campestris Ridgwat, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 

 II, April 10, 1884, 93. (Illinois.) 



Range. — Southern Alberta and southern Manitoba to Wyoming, Kansas, 

 and northern Illinois. 



