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Lagopus leucurus leucurus (Richardson). Northern White-tailed Ptar- 

 migan. [304.] 



Tetrao (Lagopus) leucin-us Richardson, in Wilson and Bonaparte, 

 Amer. Orn., Jameson ed., IV, Aug., 1831, 330. (Rocky Mountains, 

 lat. 54° N.) 



Range. — Rocky Mountains froni northern British Columbia and central 

 Alberta south to Vancouver Island. 



Lagopus leucurus rainierensis Taylor. Rainier White-tailed Ptarmigan. 



[3046.] 



Lagopus leucurus rainierensis Taylor, Condor, XXII, No. 4, Aug. 10, 

 1920, 146. (Pinnacle Peak, 6200 ft. altitude, Mt. Rainier, Washington.) 



Range. — Cascade Mountains of Washington. 



Lagopus leucurus altipetens Osgood. Southern White-tailed Ptarmigan. 



[304c.] 



Lagopus leucurus altipetens Osgood, Auk, XVIII, No. 2, April, 1901, 180. 

 (Mt. Blaine, Colorado.) 



Range. — Rocky Mountain region of the United States, from Montana to 

 northern New Mexico. 



Genus TYMPANUCHUS Gloger. 



Tympanuchus Gloger, Hand- und Hilfsbuch Naturg., 1842 [pp. 1-450, 

 1841], 396. Type, by monotypy, Tetrao cupido Linnaeus. 



Tympanuchus cupido cupido (Linnaeus). Heath Hen. [306.] 



Tetrao Cupido Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 160. Based on Le 

 Cocq de bois d'Amcrique, Urogallus minor, fuscus cervice, plumis Alas 

 imitantibus donata Catesby, Carolina, III, 1. (in Virginia = Pennsyl- 

 vania.) 



Range. — Formerly Massachusetts (Cape Ann and Martha's Vineyard), 

 southern New Hampshire, New York (Long Island), Pennsylvania (Pocono 

 plateau), New Jersey (Schooly Mountain and the pine barrens), and probably 

 the shores of Chesapeake Bay in Delaware and Maryland; for many years 

 restricted to Martha's Vineyard and now apparently extinct (one bird only, 

 spring of 1930). 



Tympanuchus cupido americanus (Reichenbach). Greater Prairie Chicken. 



[305.] 

 Cupidonia americana Reichenbach, Avium Syst. Nat., 1852 [1853], xxix. 

 (no locality given = America.) 



Range. — ^West-central Alberta, southeastern Saskatchewan, and southern 

 Manitoba to eastern Colorado, Arkansas, Missouri, southern Illinois, western 



