
378 SHARP-TAILED GROUSE. 
Mr Sabine of London, and writing merely from recollection. 
The tail-feathers are wholly black, perfectly plain and un- 
spotted ; and in the female and young, they are but slightly 
mottled, as is seen in almost all grouse. Mr Sabine has long 
had this bird in his possession, and intended dedicating it, as 
a new species, to that distinguished traveller, Dr Richardson. 
SHARP-TAILED GROUSE. (Tetrao phasianellus.) 
PLATE XIX. 
Tetrao phasianellus, Linn. Syst. ed. 10, p. 160.—Gimel. Syst. i. p. 747.—Forst. 
Phil. Trans. \xii. pp. 394 and 425.—Lath. Ind. Orn. p. 635, sp. 2.—Briss. 
Suppl. p. 9.—LTemm. Ind. Gall. in Hist. Pig. and Gall. tii. p. 702.— Vieill. 
Nowy. Dict. Hist. Nat.—Sabine, Zool. App. to Frankl. Exped. p. 681.—WNob. 
Cat. Birds U.S. sp. 208.—Id. Syn. Birds U. S. sp. 209.—Tetrao urogallus, 
var. B, Linn. Syst. i. p. 273, sp. 1.—Gelinotte a longue queue, Buff. Ois. ii. 
p. 286.—Sonn. Buff. vi. p. 72.—Bonap. Tabl. Encyc. Orn. p. 196, pl. 91, fig. 
1.—Francolin a longue queue, Hearne, Voy. & VOcean du Nord (Fr. transl.) 
p. 386.—Tetras phasianelle, Temm. Pig. et Gall. iii. p. 152.—Long-tailed 
Grouse, Edwards, Glean. pl. 117.—Lath. Syn. iv. p. 732; Id. Suppl. p. 21. 
—Sharp-tailed Grouse, Penn. Arct. Zool. sp. 181.—The Grouse, or Prairie 
Hen, Lewis and Clark, Exp. ii. p. 180, sp. 1.—Philadelphia Museum, female. 
—Mvy Collection, male and female. 
TETRAO PHASTANELLUS.—LmNnNEvs. 
Tetrao (Centrocercus) phasianellus, Swain. North. Zool. ii. p. 361. 
THis species of grouse, though lone since said to inhabit 
Virginia, is, in fact, a recent acquisition to the fauna of the 
United States ; for it was only through an awkward mistake 
that it was ever attributed to that country. Mitchell, upon 
an inspection of Edwards's bad drawing of this bird, mistaking 
it for the ruffed grouse of that and the neighbouring States, 
declared it to be an inhabitant of Virginia ; and upon his 
authority Edwards gave it as such This statement, however, 
led Wilson into the erroneous belief of the identity of the two 
species, in which he was further confirmed when, after the 
most careful researches, he became satisfied that the ruffed 
grouse was the only species to be found in Virginia. 
The gallant and lamented Governor Lewis gave the first 

