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Range. — Inhabits the islands off the coasts and the adjacent mainland 

 of southern and southeastern Alaska from the Shumagin Islands, 

 Unalaska, Unimak, Atka and adjacent islands of the Aleutian Chain, 

 Kodiak, and the base of the Aleutian Peninsula, south to the Prince of 

 Wales Archipelago, and to Porcher Island, British Columbia ; intergrading 

 with Lagopiis lagopits alhus in the Skeena River area of northwestern 

 British Columbia and with Lagopus lagopus alascensis just north of the 

 base of the Aleutian Chain (Nushagak, etc.). 



Type locality. — Mountain at Bear Bay, Baranof Island, Alaska. 



Lagopus albus (not Tetrao alhus Gmelin) Elliot, Monogr. Tetraonidae, 1865, pis. 

 17, 18, and text, part. — Dall and Bannister, Trans. Chicago Acad. Sci., i, 

 1869, 287, part (Sitka and Kodiak, Alaska; habits; molts).— Dall, Proc. 

 California Acad. Sci., advance reprint 1873, 4, part; v, pt. 1, 1873, 38, part; v, 

 1874, 273 (Sliumagin Islands to Unalaska, Alaska).— Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., V, 1882, 163 (Unga Island, Shumagin group; crit.). — Hartlaub, Tourn. 

 fiir Orn., 1883, 276 (Chilcoot, Alaska). 



L{agopus] albus CouES, Key North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1884, 586, part. 



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



Tetrao lagopus (not of Linnaeus) Schalow, Journ. fiir Orn., 1891, 258 (Aleutian 

 Islands). 



Lagopus lagopus Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., xvi, 1902, 235, part (Popof 

 Island, Alaska; habits). 



Lagopus ale.vandrae Grinnell (J.), Univ. California Publ. Zool., v, No. 2, 1909, 

 204 (mountain at Bear Bay, Baranof Island, se. Alaska; coll. Univ. California, 

 Mus. Vert. Zool.).— Bailey, Auk, xliv, 1927, 198 (Glacier Bay; Beardslee 

 Islands; Sandy Cove; etc.; se. Alaska; habits). 



Lagopus lagopus ale.vandrce American Ornithologists' Union, Auk, xxvi, No. 3, 

 1909, 275 (Check-list No. 301b) ; Check-list, ed. 3, 1910, 141.— Clark, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., xxxviii, 1910, 51-54, part (mountains of se. Alaska to Kodiak; 

 crit.).— Riley, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xxiv, 1911, 233 (sw. coast 

 Alaska).— Brooks (W.S.), Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., lix, 1915, 364 (Portage 

 Bay, Alaska Peninsula).— Brooks (A.), Auk, xl, 1923, 221 (Porcher Island, 

 British Columbia). 



Lagopus lagopus alcxandrae Willett, Auk, xxxviii, 1921, 128 (Kalu, Prince of 

 Wales, Decatur, Selemez, San Juan, Dall, and Long Islands, se. Alaska).— 

 Hartert, Vog. pal. Fauna, iii, 1921, 1863 (crit.).— Taverner, Birds Western 

 Canada, ' 1926, 169 in text; Birds Canada 1934, 158, in text.— American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, ed. 4, 1931, 83 (distr.).— Bent, U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. Bull. 162, 1932, 194 (habits).— Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 

 1934, 31 (distr.).— Friedmann, Bull. Chicago Acad. Sci., v, No. 3, 1935, 31 

 (Kodiak Island; spec.).— Hellmayr and Conover, Cat. Birds Amer., i. No. 1, 

 1942, 203 (syn. ; distr.).— Clark, Smiths. War Background Stud. No. 21, 1945, 

 78 (list birds Aleutians). 



Lagopus l[agopus] alexandrae Palmer, Condor, xxx, 1928, 264, in text (patro- 

 nymics).— Swarth, Pacific Coast Avif., No. 22, 1934, 25, in text (Unalaska; 

 Atka; spec). 



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

 in text (crit.). 



