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TETRAONID^. 



Hyhriil betiveen Lagoi)us lagopus and Tetrastes bonasia. 



Bonasa bonasia X Lagopus albus, Co/lett, P. Z. S. 1886, p. 237 



[Sweden]. 

 Lagopus bonasioides, Kolth. Bih. Sv. Ak. Handl. xiii. Afd. iv. no. 6, 



7 pp. pi. (1888). 



Ihjhrid between Lagopus lagopus and Lyrurus tetrix. See p. 57. 

 Hybrid between Lagopus lagopus and Tetrao urogallus. See p. 64. 



Subsp. a. Lagopus alleni. 



Lagopus albus, Mmjn. B. E. N. Anier. p. 348 (1881) [part., New- 

 foundland]. 



Lagopus alba alleni, Stejn. Auk, i. p. 369 (1884) TNewfoundland] ; 

 Men: Auk, ii. p. 201 (1885). 



Lagopus lagopus alleni, SteJn. P. ?7.*b'. Nat. Mus. viii. p. 20 (1885) ; 

 A. 0. U. Check-l. p. 173 (1886) : Pidgw. Man. p. 199 (1887). 



Tbis name has been proposed by Stejneger for specimens from 

 Newfoundland, which are said in winter plumage to differ from 

 typical examples of L. lagopus in having the shafts of the primaries 

 and secondaries black. We have already seen that black shafts and 

 markings to the primaries are characteristic of the immature bird, 

 and the black shafts to the secondaries, though by no means common, 

 are well marked in a specimen from Russia. It is impossible at 

 present with the material in hand to estimate the value of this 

 character ; but in an adult specimen in autumn plumage from New- 

 foundland the character of the black shafts is well developed and 

 has apparently nothing to do w ith age. The longest upper tail- 

 coverts are considerably elongated and extend at least two inches 

 beyond the end of the tail ; whether this is simply an accidental 

 variety or not is at present unknown. 



Hub. Newfoundland. 



*a. (S ad. sk. Newfoundland, Sept. J. E. Harting, Esq. [P.]. 



3. Lagopus mutus. 



La Gehuotte blanche, Daubent. PI. Enl. [nos. 129 & 494]. 



Tetrao lagopus. Scop, {nee Linn.), Ann. i. p. 118 (1769) ; Lath. hid. 



Orn. ii. p. 639 (1790) ; Beehst. Nat. Deutschl iii. p. 508 (1793) ; 



Wolf 4" Meyer, Nat. Voy. Deutschl. ii. p. 37, pis. (1805) ; Pemi. 



Brit. Zool. i. p. 359, pi. 57 (1812) ; Temm. Pig. et Gall. iii. pp. 185, 



707 (1815); Roux, Orn. Prov. ii. p. 31, pi. 255 (1830); Nauni. 



Nat. Voy. Deutschl. vi. p. 401, pis. 160, 161 (1833); Schinz, Nut. 



Abbild. Vog. p. 279, pi. 105 1 1833) ; Thomjis. Nat. Hist. Iret. ii. 



p. 45 (1850) ; Schinz, Nat. Vog. p. 159, pi. 78 (1853) ; Compamio, 



Hist. Nat. Pyrin, iii. p. 198 (1863) ; Altum, J.f. 0. 1891, p. 103. 



* This is the specimen mentioned in the ■ Field' of the ■22nd December, 

 1888, as a probable hybrid between the Blackcock (recently introduced into 

 Newfoundland) and the Willow-Grouse. 



