PTARMIGANS. 269 



banded. Nova Scotia, and possibly also 

 New Brunswick. Habits, etc., similar to last. 



252. WILLOW PTARMIGAN. 



15; winter, white; tail, black, fig. 211. 



Summer, reddish-brown spotted and banded 



with black; greater portion of wing, middle 



under parts, and feet white, fig. 212. Arctic 



Fig. 211 



Willow Ptarmigan, winter. 1-8. 



and Sub-arctic, in N. A. south to Sitka and 

 British Provinces, accidental Me. and Mass. 

 253. ALLEN PTARMIGAN. 

 Similar to last, primaries more or less 

 mottled with dusky. Newfoundland. 

 254. ROCK PTARMIGAN. 

 Scarcely different from 253 in winter; 

 in summer, grayer above and more coarselv 



