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ORMTIIOLOGIUAL LXI'LOUATIONS. 

 88. Lagopuslagopiis (LiN.). 



10 



mL, I, p. 159.— Pall., Zoogr. Ross. As., II, p. 56 



17b8.—Tetrao lagopiis Lin., S. N. 



(ijart) (182G). „., . _ . ^t o 



1788 -Telrao a bus Gmkl., Svst. Nat., 1, 2 p. 7r,0.-Laf,opus a. Midd., Sibir. Reise, II, 2 



sad. Ost-Sibir. (p. 294) (186:5).-Baiud, Tra.s. Cbic. Acad., ^ ^f^^^^ 

 G63).-Dall & Bann., ibid., p. 287.-FINSCH., Abb. Brem. Ver., Ill, «72, 

 p. G2-TACZAN., J. f. Orn., 1873, p. 9H.-W., Bull Soc^ Zoo. Prance 1876, 

 ;, 240 _ w., Orn. Fann. Yost. Sibir., p. 47 (1877).-Bean, Pr. U. S. Nat. 

 Sns "1882, p. 1G3.-NELSOX, Crnise Corwin, p. 80 (l883).-STEJNEGER,Na- 

 tiiren, 1884, p. S.-Bogdan., Consp. Av. Ross., I, p. 32 (1884). 



178(^._7V<r«o/«j)i;o«ic«8GMEL.,Syst. Nat.,I, 2, p. 751. t^ t^ TT n 249 



1815-2'./n<o J.UCCH Temm., Gall, et Pig., HI, P- 208.-Kittl., Denkw., II, p. 249 

 (lHo8).-ABAMS Ibis, 1878, p^43(. „^ ^_ j,^,,^,,,, i, NoR- 



1817. _7V/rflO si/ftaZ^JHiffs ^iLss, Uin. fe\ec., 1, i>.ou/. ' j r 

 DENSK.T., Voy.Yega, Aiuer.ed.,p.433(1882). 



im.-Laoopu8 a//;<««8 Nelson, Cruise Corwin, p. 82 {nee Nilsson). 



List of specimens collected. 



92707 

 92708 



" Xo. 92707..-Iris dark bro.n. Bill bor.y blackish, plun^heous. Crop contained buds of .villows. cat- 

 kins of alder, and a hip of JRosa kamtuchatica. 



A few small flocks were met with ou a Iiimting expedition iu the iieigh- 

 borhood of Petropanlski on the 19th of May, 1883. They were exceed- 

 ingly shv, an<l as the snow was 4 to 6 feet deep ou the ground we had to 

 huni th; gronse in sledges drawn by ten dogs, and to shoot from the 

 sled-e A strange way of hunting gronse ! Only the males had com- 

 menced assn.ning the dark plumage, the head and neck being already 

 brown, all the brown feathers still partly in their sheaths. 



This species does not occur on the islands, 



89. Lagopus ridgwayi Stejneger. 



Auk," 1884, p. 82). io«-^ „ -^fis 



lSS3.-Laoopns alpinu^ Dvbowski, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1883 p. 368 

 lB84._.4i<^W...^S.E.NEGi^^.e.B^l.S^Was^;n^^^ 



Id., Amer. NnTurahst, XVUl, iWo4, p. nt lu-, ^ 



p.kt pi- v.-M., Ibis, 1885,p.50. 

 leSi.-Laijopus ru^e^tvis sub.p. insulans BoODANOW, Consp. Av. Ross, p. M. 



