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L. r. rein'hardti. (To J. Reiiiliardt, the well-known naturalist.) Reinhardt's Rock 

 Ptarmigan. Greenland Ptarmigan. As before; ^ in summer less regularly aud more 

 finely barred above on a grayish-brown ground. Greenland and opposite shores of N. Am., S. 

 to Ungava in Labrador. Tetrao reinliardi Brehm, Lehrb. 1823, p. 440. T. reinhardti Brehm, 

 Isis, 1826, p. 930. Lagopus reinhardti Brehm, Naum. 1855, p. 287. L. rupestris reinhardtii 

 Blas. B. Eur. 18fi2, p. IG. L. rupestris reinhardti X. 0. U. Check-List, 1886, No. 302 «; 

 RiDGW. Man. 1887, p. 200. L. rupestris reinhardi A. 0. U. Check-List, 2d ed. 1895, No. 302 a, 

 reverting to Brehm's original misspelling, which liad been set right in the former ed. of tlie 

 List, as in the Key, 2d 

 ed. 1884, p. 588. T. (L.) 

 viutits Sw. Fn. Bor. Am. 

 ii, 1831, p. 450. L. mit- 

 tus reinhardti DuBUS, 

 Consp. 1871,p. 21. Te- 

 trao mutus Aud. Orn. 

 Biog. V, 1839, p. 196, 

 pi. 318. Lagopus amer- 

 icanus Aud. B. Am. v, 

 1842, p. 119, pi. 300; 

 Baird, B. N. a. 1858, 

 p. 637. L. groenlandicm 

 Brehm, Naum. 1855, p. 

 287. L. rup>estris var. oc- 

 cidentalis Sund. Svensk. 

 A'et.-Ak. Forh. 1874, 

 p. 20. (Ob.s. Connected 

 witli this geographically 

 is L. loeldii of Newfound- 

 land, given below as a 

 full species.) 



L. r. nel'soni. (To E. 

 W. Nelson.) Nelson's 

 Rock Ptarmigan. 

 Unalashka Ptarmi- 

 gan. As before : ^ in 

 summer very finely ver- 

 miculated aliove with 

 black on a (h'C]) imiber- 

 brown grniiud, licl<iwthe 

 .same on a briglit tawny 

 ground, and witli some blackish feathers intermixed ; 9 indistinguishald<' fmm that of rupestris 

 proper. Unalaslika and some of the neighboring Aleutian Islands. L. albus Dall, 1873, 

 nee auct. L. rupestris bis Nelson, Cruise Corwin, 1883, p. 81, No. 79 (not No. 78). L. 

 rupestris Turner, Cont. Nat. Hist. Alaska, 1886, p. 155, in part. L. rujicstris ueboni Stej. 

 Auk, July, 1884, p. 226, type No. 93,448 U. S. N. M. May 18, 1877; Nelson, Rep. Al:i.<5ka. 

 1887, p. 138, jd. 10; Ridgw. Man. 1887, p. 201 ; A. (). V. Check-Lists, 1886-95, No. 302 6; 

 see ColES, ,\uk, Jan. 1884, p. 79. 



L. r. atklieii'sis. (Lat. of Atlilia, AtliUa, or Atka, one of the intermediate islands of the 

 Aleutian diaiii.) Tikmr's Kock I'tarmkjan. Atkhan Ptarmigan. As before : ^ \n 

 summer very fiuely and (hiisrly veriniciilated jibove witli black on a i>ale raw-urn'" '■ ."-.Mmd, 





|CAwin. Onei-ibcivA. 



Via. 503. — Wliite-tailfd PtarmlRan. (From "Game Birds of North Amoru-a," 

 by D. G. Elliot.) 



