ORDER GALLINjE. 145 



Genus CENTROCERCUS Swainson. 



Centrocercus Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., II, 1831 (1832), 358, 496. 

 Type, by orig. desig., Tetrao wophasianus Bonapabte. 



Centrocercus urophasianus (Bonaparte). Sage Hen. [309.] 



Tetrao urophasianus Bonaparte, Zool. Journ., Ill, 1827, 213. ("North- 

 western countries beyond the Mississippi, especially on the Missouri.") 



Range. — Sagebrush plains of Transition Zone from middle south- 

 ern British Columbia, southern Saskatchewan, and northwestern 

 North Dakota south to middle eastern California, northwestern New 

 Mexico, and northwestern Nebraska. 



Family MELEAGRID.S. Turkeys. 



Genus MELEA6RIS Linn^us. 



Meleagris LinnjBus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 156. Type, by subs, 

 desig., Meleagris gallopavo Linnaeus (Gray, 1840). 



Meleagris gallopavo (Linn^us). 



Range. — Eastern and south central United States, west to Arizona 

 and south to the mountains of Oaxaca. 



a. [Meleagris gallopavo gallopavo. Extralimital.] 



6. Meleagris gallopavo silv6stris Vieillot. Wild Turkey. [310o.] 



Meleagris sUvestris Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., IX, 1817, 447. 



Range. — Eastern United States from Nebraska, Kansas, western Okla- 

 homa, and eastern Texas east to central Pennsylvania, and south to the Gulf 

 coast; formerly north to South Dakota, southern Ontario, and southern 

 Maine. 



e. Meleagris gallopavo m€rriami Nelson. Merriam's Turkey. [310.] 



Meleagris gallopavo merriami Nelson, Auk, XVII, April, 1900, 120. 

 (47 miles southwest of Winslow, Arizona.) 



Range. — Transition and Upper Sonoran zones in the mountains of south- 

 ern Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, western Texas, northern Sonora, and 

 Chihuahua. 



