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Bonasa umbellus sabini (Douglas). Oregon Ruffed Grouse. [300r.] 



Tetrao Sahini Douglas, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., XVI, Pt. i, 1S29, 137 

 (read Dec. 16, 1828). (Coast of Northwest America, between the 40° 

 and 49° parallels from Cape Mendocino to Vancouver's Island.) 



Range. — ^Vancouver Island and the adjacent mainland coast of British 

 Columbia south to Humboldt County, California. 



Genus LAGOPUS Brisson. 



Lagopus Brisson, Orn., 1760, I, 26, 181. Type, by tautonymy, Lagopus 

 Brisson = Tetrao lagopus Linnaeus. 



Lag6pus lag6pus albus (Gmelin). Willow Ptarmigan. [301.] 



Tetrao albus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. ii, 1789 , 750. Based mainly on the 

 White Partridge Edwards, Nat. Hist. Birds, 72. (septentrionalis 

 Americae, Europae et Asiae silvis = Hudson Bay.) 



Range. — Breeds from northern Banks Island, west coast of central Green- 

 land, and the eastern Aleutian Islands south to central Mackenzie and northern 

 Quebec (Ungava) and in the moimtains to central Alberta and the coast 

 ranges of northern British Columbia. Winters south to southern Saskat- 

 chewan, southern Alberta, central Ontario, and southern Quebec. Accidental 

 in North Dakota, Montana, Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, Maine, and 

 Massachusetts. 



Lagopus lagopus ungavus Riley. Ungava Ptarmigan. [301c.] 



Lagopus lagopus ungavus Riley, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXIV, No. 45, 

 Nov. 28, 1911, 233. (Fort Chimo, Ungava [northern Quebec].) 



Range. — -Northern Quebec (Ungava) probably to the northeastern shore of 

 Hudson Bay. • 



Lagopus lagopus alleni Stejneger. Allen's Ptarmigan. [301a.] 



Lagopus alba alleni Stejneger, Auk, I, No. 4, Oct., 1884, 369. (New- 

 foundland.) 



Range. — Newfoundland. 



Lagopus lagopus alascensis Swarth. Alaska Ptarmigan. [301d.] 



Lagopus lagopus alascensis Swarth, Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., XXX, 

 No. 4, Sept., 1926, 87. (Kowak River delta, Alaska.) 



Range. — The Alaskan mainland (except the southeastern coast), northern 

 Yukon Territory, and eastward for an midetermined distance. 



