TETRAUNIDJi — THE GROUSE. 



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Lagopus albus, Aup. 



WUIOW GROUSE; WHITE PTABMIGAN. 



Tctrao albus, Gmelin, I, 17S8, 750 (Hudson's Baj-)- — Latu. IuJ. Orii. II, 639. Lago- 

 pus albus, AuD. Syn. 1839, 207. — Ib. Birds Amer. V, 1842, 114, pi. ccxcix. — Bon.\p. 

 Am. Phil. Ill, new ser. p. 393, sp. 313. — Gray, Gen. B. HI. — B.aird, Birds N. 

 Am. 1858, 633. — BoiE, Isis, 1822, 558. —Gray, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. Ill, 47, 1844.— 

 Box.AP. Geog. & Comp. List. B. p. 44, No. 288. — Elliot, Monog. Tetraon. pi. — 

 CoL-Es, P.A.N. S. 1861, 227. — GU.4.Y, Cat. Brit. Mus. V, 1867, 80. — Dall & 

 Banxlster, Tr. Chicago Ac. I, 1869, 287. — Finsch, Abh. Nat. Ill, 1872, 62 

 (.Alaska). Telrao (Lagopus) albus, Nuttall, Man. I, (2ded.,) 1840, 816. ? Telrao 

 lagopus, FoRSTEK, Phil. Trans. LXII, 1772, 390. Telrao saliccti, Sabine, App. 

 Franklin's Narr. 681. — Rich. App. Pan-y's 2J Voyage, 347. — Aui). Orn. Biog. II, 

 1834, 528, pi. cxci. — Sab. App. Frank. Narr. p. 681. Tctrao (Lagopus) saliceti, 

 SwAiNsox, F. Bor. Am. II, 1831, 351. — Lagopus s. Gould. B. Eur. pi. IFhite 

 Grouse, Pexxast. Telrao lapponicus, G.mel. Sy.st. Nat. I, 751, sp. 25. — Lath. Ind. 

 Orn. II, 640, sp. 12. Tetrao rehusal; Temm. Pig. et Gall. Ill, 225. Lagopus subal- 

 pimis. Nils. Orn. Suec. I, 307, sp. 139. Lagoptcs irackijdactylus, Temm. Man. Orn. 

 Ill, 328. — Gould, B. Eur. pi. cclvi. — Gray, Gen. B. III. — Bonap. Consp. List. 

 44, No. 300. 



Sp. Char. Bill very stout. Bill .is high as the distance from the nasal groove to its 

 tip. Tail always black, narrowly tipped with white ; wing (except upper coverts) pure 

 white. 



Summer. Male (43,505, Fort Anderson, September 8 ; MacFarlane). Head, neck, and 

 jugulum deep cinnamon-rufous; whole upper parts (except wings) paler, more fulvous 



Lasnpits albus 



brown, broadly and closely barred with black. Top of head spotted with black, and the 

 jugulum and neck with scattered bars of the same. Wing, 7.50 ; bill, .40 from nostril, 

 and .35 deep. Female (.53,.52G, Fort Anderson, June, 1865; MacFarlanej. Entire plu- 

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