ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY 
 
 
QUKEENS PARK AT BLOOR STREET 
    TORONTO 5. ONT. 
 
 
                                           March 20th, 193:. 
 
 
 
 
 
Professor Aldo Leopold, 
University of Wisconsin, 
Madison, Wisconsin. 
 
 
 
Dear Dr. Leopold: 
 
                    I am pleased to say that my paper on the 
Sharp-tailed Grouse has gone to press. In this paper, I have 
presented, as a second part, a preliminary taxonomic study 
which developed incidental to the original intent. I should, 
however, like to follow it with a more decisive and brief 
revision of the genus. This study hinges more or less on the 
obtaining of specimens, taken in fall or winter, from Montana 
(particularly), Wyoming and the foothills of Colorado. 
 
                    I have communicated with the Game Depart- 
ment of Montana but for some reason or other, they could not 
let us have een one bird. Through some personal correspondence 
with 'Mr. W. M. Rush, In Charge of Game Manngement, Missoula, 
Montana, I have found him appreciative of the problem but he has 
been unable to procure a winter specimen for me. Birds taken 
from now on until October will be of little use in comparative 
work. I have seen the Montana specimens from Washrgton, D. C. 
but I am inclined to think that their are somewhat changed in 
colour due to their age as specimens. Have you any suggestions? 
 
 
                                Yours very truly 
 
                                  L. L. Snyder 
 
 
LLS/S.