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Exceptional hybrids known with Spruce Grouse (Falcipennis canadensis), Sharp-tailed Grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus) and Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus). Western coast subspecies (sitkensis, fuliginosus, howardi, sierrae) formerly considered separate species, D. fuliginosus.

The following 8 subspecies are recognised:

• sitkensis Swarth, 1921   -  Alexander Archipelago (south-eastern Alaska) to Queen Charlotte Is (British Columbia). Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Sooty Grouse (Dendragapus fuliginosus).
• fuliginosus (Ridgway, 1873)   -  South-eastern Alaska to southern California. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Sooty Grouse (Dendragapus fuliginosus).
• sierrae Chapman, 1904   -  Inner coastal ranges from central Washington to California (Sierra Nevada). Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Sooty Grouse (Dendragapus fuliginosus).
• howardi Dickey and van Rossem, 1923   -  California, from southern Sierra Nevada south to Tehachapi Mts and Mt Pinos. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Sooty Grouse (Dendragapus fuliginosus).
• richardsonii (Douglas, 1829)   -  Southern Yukon and northern British Columbia through western Alberta and eastern British Columbia to northern Idaho and north-western Wyoming.
• pallidus Swarth, 1931   -  Southern British Columbia through eastern Washington to north-eastern Oregon.
• obscurus (Say, 1823)   -  Rocky Mts from central Wyoming through Utah and Colorado south to northern Arizona and western New Mexico.
• oreinus Behle & Selander, 1951   -  North-eastern Nevada.

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