Color Key to North American Birds — Part 88

=308. Sharp-tailed Grouse= (_Pediœcetes phasianellus_). L. 17. Breast feathers with internal =V= shaped _loops_; no neck-tufts. _Ads._ Prevailing color above _black_; narrowly barred with rusty and margined with paler.

Range--Interior of British America, east to Rocky Mountains, about James Bay (Moose Factory) and the west shore of Hudson Bay, northern Manitoba, north at least to Fort Simpson, Mackenzie River, northwest territory. (Bendire.)

=308a. Columbian Sharp-tailed Grouse= (_P. p. columbianus_). Similar to No. 308, but prevailing color above buffy.

Range.--"Northwest United States; south to northeastern California, northern Nevada and Utah; east to Montana and Wyoming, west to Oregon and Washington; north, chiefly west of Rocky Mountains, through British Columbia to central Alaska (Fort Yukon)" (Bendire.)

=308b. Prairie Sharp-tailed Grouse= (_P. p. campestris_). Similar to No. 308a, but more rusty. _Notes._ Song, a bubbling crow, a rattling of tail-feathers, and stamping of feet. Calls, when disturbed, _cack_, _cack_, _cack_; a soft clear whistle and a grunt of alarm. (Seton.) Call of mother to young and of young in reply a guttural, raucous croak. (Grinnell.)

Range--"Plains and prairies of United States, north to Manitoba; east to Wisconsin and northern Illinois; west to eastern Colorado; south to eastern New Mexico." (Bendire.)

=309. Sage Grouse= (_Centrocercus urophasianus_). _Ad._ [Male], L. 29; _Ad._ [Female], L. 22. Similar to [Male], but smaller, throat whiter; breast barred black and whitish. _Notes._ When courting, low, grunting, guttural sounds; when alarmed, a sort of cackle, _käk_, _käk_. (Bendire.)

Range.--"Sage regions of the Rocky Mountain Plateau, and west chiefly within the United States, but north to Assiniboia and the dry interior of British Columbia; east to North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Colorado; south to northern New Mexico, Utah and Nevada; west in California, Oregon and Washington, to the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Range." (A.O.U.)

=Pheasant= (_Phasianus torquatus × P. colchicus_). An introduced species, see remarks on page 114.

=310. Wild Turkey= (_Meleagris gallopavo silvestris_). [Male] _Ad._ L. about 48; upper tail-coverts and tail tipped with rusty chestnut: white bars in primaries entire, crossing the webs of the feathers. _Notes._ Similar to those of the domesticated Turkey.