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Lagopus lagopus alexandrae Grinnell. Alexander's Ptarmigan. [3016.] 



Lagopus alexandrae Grinnell, Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., V, No. 2, Feb. 18, 

 1909, 204. (Mountain at Bear Bay, on Peril Strait, Baranof Island, 

 Alaska.) 



Range. — Baranof and adjacent islands west to the Shumagin Islands, south 

 to Porcher Island, Alaska, and possibly a narrow strip on the mainland from. 

 Glacier Bay to central British Columbia. 



[Allied races of L. lagopus occur in Scandinavia, Russia, and Siberia.] 



Lagopus rupestris rupestris (Gmelin). Rock Ptarmigan. [302.] 



Tetrao rupestris Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. ii, 1789, 751. Based on the 

 Rock Grous Pennant, Arct. Zool., II, 312. (in boreahbus oris ad 

 sinum Hudsonis = shores of Hudson Bay.) ^ 



Range. — Northern British Columbia, southern Yukon, central Mackenzie, 

 Keewatin, southern Baffin Island, and the Ungava Peninsula. 



Lagopus rupestris reinhardi (Brehm). Reinhardt's Ptarmigan. [302o.] 



Tetrao Reinhardi C. L. Brehm, Lehrbuch Eur. Vogel, II, 1824, 986. 

 (Gronland.) 



Range. — Southwestern Greenland, breeding north to lat. 66°. 



Lagopus rupestris welchi Brewster. Welch's Ptarmigan. [303.] 



Lagopus welchi Brewster, Auk, II, No. 2, April, 1885, 194. (New- 

 foundland.) 



Range. — Newfoundland. 



Lagopus rupestris nelsoni Stejneger. Nelson's Ptarmigan. [3026.] 



Lagopus rupestris nelsoni Stejneger, Auk, I, No. 3, July, 1884, 226. 

 (Island of Unalashka [Alaska].) 



Range. — Unalaska, Akutan, and Unimak, Aleutian Islands. 



Lagopus rupestris atkhensis Turner. Turner's Ptarmigan. [302c.] 



Lagopus mutus atkhensis Turner, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1882, 227, 

 230 [Aug. 5]. (Atkha Islands [sic], Aleutian Chain [Alaska].) 



Range. — -Atka, one of the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. 



1 The Rock Ptarmigans are often regarded as subspecies of the FAiropean 

 L. mutus to which they are very closely allied. For a recent study of the 

 American mainland forms cf. Taverner, Ann. Rept. Nat. Mus. Canada for 

 1928, p. 28. 



