. A hand-book to the game-birds . re barred with buff. Measurements a trifleless than those of the male. Range.—South-western Kansas^ Western Indian Territory,Western, and probably Southern, Texas. The range of this smaller and paler-coloured species is stillimperfectly known, but its nesting habits appear to be verysimilar to those of T. aniericanus. THE SAGE GROUSE. GENUS CENTROCERCUS. Ce?itrocercns, Swains. Faun. ii. pp. 342, 496(1831). Type, C. iirophasianus (Bonap.). Toes naked and pectinate along the sides; tail long andPheasant-like, composed of twenty wedge shaped pointed fe
. A hand-book to the game-birds . re barred with buff. Measurements a trifleless than those of the male. Range.—South-western Kansas^ Western Indian Territory,Western, and probably Southern, Texas. The range of this smaller and paler-coloured species is stillimperfectly known, but its nesting habits appear to be verysimilar to those of T. aniericanus. THE SAGE GROUSE. GENUS CENTROCERCUS. Ce?itrocercns, Swains. Faun. ii. pp. 342, 496(1831). Type, C. iirophasianus (Bonap.). Toes naked and pectinate along the sides; tail long andPheasant-like, composed of twenty wedge shaped pointed fea-thers, the outer pair being less than two thirds the length ofthe middle pair. The males have an inflatable air-sac on eachside of the neck. Only on: species is known. I. THE SAGE GROUSE. CENTROCERCUS UROPHASIANUS. Tetrao urophasianus, Bonap. Zool. Journ. iii. p. 213 (1828); id. Amer. Orn. iii. p. 55, pi. xxi. fig. i (1828).Tetrao {Centrocercus) urophasianus, Swains. & Richards. Faun. ii. p. 358, pi. 58 (1831).. THE SAGE GROUSE. 67 Centrocerais urophasianus, Jard. Nat, Libr. Orn. iv. p. 140,pi. xvii. (1834); Elliot, Monogr. Tetraon. pi. xiii. (1865)Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. B. p. 106, pi. iii. figs, ii-i^*(1892); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 8j (1893). {Plate VI.) Adult Male.—General colour above blackish, marked and mot tied with buff; breast and belly mostly black; the chin and throat white, spotted with black ; otherwise very similar to the female, though much larger, attaining a weight of eight pounds. Total length, 28 inches; wing, i25; tail, 12 ; tarsus, 2-2. Adult Female.—Has the chin and throat white, and is muchsmaller, rarely weighing more than five pounds. Total length,22 inches; wing, io*8 ; tail, 6*5; tarsus, 1-9. Range.—The sage-brush plains of the Rocky Mountainplateau, extending northwards to British America and southto New Mexico, South California, Utah, and Nevada. The Sage Grouse is the largest species of its kind foundm th
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