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etc., near Nome, Alaska). — Laing and Taverner, Ann. Rep. Nat. Mus. Canada 

 for 1927 (1929), 75 (Chitina River region, Alaska). — Shortt, Contr. Roy. 

 Ontario Mus. Zool., No. 17, 1939, 12 (Yakutat Bay, Alaska; spec; downy 

 young) . 



L[agopus] lagopus Ridgway, Man. North Anier. Birds, 1887, 199, part. 



[Lagopus] lagopus Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 18, part. 



Lagopus lagopus lagopus American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, ed. 3, 

 1910, 140, part.— Hersey, Smiths. Misc. Coll., Ixvi, No. 2, 1916, 26 (n. to Cape 

 Espenberg, Alaska). — Dice, Condor, xxii, 1920, 179 (Tanana, Cosna River, and 

 North Fork Kuskokwim River, Alaska; habits; food). — Conover, Auk, xliii, 

 1926, 316 (Hooper Bay, Alaska; habits).— Peters, Check-list Birds of World, 

 ii, 1934, 30, part.— Hellmayr and Conover, Cat. Birds Amer., i. No. 1, 1942, 

 201, part. 



Lagopus albus Elliot, Monogr. Tetraonidae, 1865, pis. 17, 18, text part. — Dall and 

 Bannister, Trans. Chicago Acad. Sci., i, 1869, 287, part (Fort Yukon, Alaska, 

 to Bering Sea; habits; molts). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. North 

 Amer. Birds, iii, 1874, 457, part (habits; distr. ; descr.). — McLenegan, Cruise 

 Corwin, 1884, 119 (Kowak River, Hotham Inlet, and Kotzebue Sound, nw. 

 Alaska) ; Cruise Corwin, 1885 (1887), 78 (Noatak River, Alaska). — Hellmayr 

 and Conover, Cat. Birds Amer., i. No. 1, 1942, 201, part (syn. ; distr.). 



L{agopiis] albus Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1884, 586, part. 



[Lagopus] albus Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, 1872, 235, part. 



Lagopus lagopus albus Clark, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxxviii, 1910, 53 in text, 

 part (n. Alaska, Point Barrow, Kotzebue Sound, Cape Lisbourne, Kowak River ; 

 crit.). — Riley, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xxiv, 1911, 233, part (n. Alaska). — 

 Brooks, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ux, 1915, 363 (Camden Bay, Humphrey Point, 

 and Demarcation Point, n. Alaska; habits). — Oberholser, Auk, xxxiv, 1917, 

 200, part (Alaska). — Bailey, Condor, xxviii, 1926, 121 (nw. Alaska; distr.; 

 habits). 



Lagopus lagopus alascensis Swarth, Univ. California Publ. Zool., xxx. No. 4, 



1926, 87 (Kowak River Delta, Alaska; descr.; crit.) ; Pacific Coast Avif., No. 

 22, 1934, 25 (Nunivak Island, Alaska; spec; crit.). — Dixon, Condor, xxix, 



1927, 213 (life hist.; photos). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, 

 ed. 4, 1931, 82 (distr.).— Bent, U. S. Nat. Aius. Bull. 162, 1932, 200 (habits).— 

 Hurley, Murrelet, xiii, 1932, 38 (Bristol Bay, Alaska; eggs). — Bailey, Brower, 

 and Bishop, Progr. Activ. Chicago Acad. Sci., iv. No. 2, 1933, 24 (Point 

 Barrow, Alaska). — Friedmann, Joum. Washington Acad. Sci., xxiv, 1934, 237 

 (Cape Denbeigh, Norton Sound) ; xxxi, 1941, 407 (Cape Prince of Wales, 

 Alaska). — Groebbels, Der Vogel, ii, 1937, 166 (data on breed, biol.). — Dixon. 

 Condor, xlv, 1943, 54 (Arctic Alaska; Humphrey Point; abundant; nests). 



L[agopus] l[agopus] alascensis Austin, Mem. Nuttall Orn. Club, No. 7, 1932, 74, 



in text (crit). 

 Tetrao saliceti (not of Temminck) Adams, Ibis, 1878, 436 (St. Michael, Alaska; 



habits, etc.). 



LAGOPUS LAGOPUS ALBUS (Gmelin) 



Keewatin Willow Ptarmigan 



Adult male, summer plumage. — Similar to that of Lagopus lagopus 

 alascensis but generally slightly darker above and on the throat and 

 breast, less brightly rufescent, and the bill slenderer, the width at the 

 gape averaging about 12 mm. 



