TETRAONID^ — THE GROUSE. 



457 



Lagopus albus, Aud. 



WILLOW GROUSE; WHITE PTARMIGAN. 



Tetrao albus, Gmelin, I, 1788, 750 (Hudson's Bay). — Lath. Ind. Orn. II, 639. Lago- 

 pus albus, Aud. Syn. 1839, 207. — Ib. Birds Amer. V, 1842, 114, pi. ccxcix. Bonap. 



Am. Phil. Ill, new ser. p. 393, sp. 313. — Gray, Geu. B. III. — Baird, Birds N. 

 Am. 1858, 633. — Boie, Isis, 1822, 558. —Gray, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. Ill, 47, 1844. — 

 Bonap. Geog. & Comp. List. B. p. 44, No. 288. — Elliot, Monog. Tetraon. pi. — 

 CouES, P.A.N. S. 1861, 227. — Gray, Cat. Brit. Mus. V, 1867, 80. — Dall & 

 Bannister, Tr. Chicago Ac. I, 1869, 287. — Finsch, Abh. Nat. Ill, 1872, 62 

 (Alaska). Tetrao (Lagopus) albus, Nuttall, Man. I, (2ded.,) 1840, 816. .? Tetrao 

 lagopus, FoRSTER, Phil. Trans. LXII, 1772, 390. Tetrao saliceti, Sabine, App. 

 Franklin's Narr. 681.— Rich. App. Parry's 2d Voyage, 347. —Aud. Orn. Biog. II, 

 1834, 528, pi. cxci. — Sab. App. Frank. Narr. p. 681. Tetrao (Lagopus) saliceti, 

 SwAiNSON, F. Bor. Am. II, 1831, 351. — Lagopus s. Gould. B. Eur. pi. White 

 Grouse, Pennant. Tetrao lapponicus, Gmel. Syst. Nat. I, 751, sp. 25. — Lath. Ind. 

 Orn. II, 640, sp. 12. Tetrao rehusak, Temm. Pig. et Gall. Ill, 225. Lagopus subal- 

 pinus. Nils. Orn. Suec. I, 307, sp. 139. Lagopus brachydactylus, Temm. Man. Orn. 

 Ill, 328. — Gould, B. Eur. pi. cclvi. — Gray, Gen. B. III. — Bonap. Consp. List. 

 44, No. 300. 



Sp. Char. Bill very stout. Bill as high as the distance from the nasal groove to its 

 tip. Tail always black, narrow^ly tipped with white ; wing (except upper coverts) pure 

 white. 



Summer. Male (43,505, Fort Anderson, September 8 ; MacFarlane). Head, neck, and 

 jugulum deep cinnamon-rufous ; whole upper parts (except wings) paler, more fulvous 



Lagopus albus. 



brown, broadly and closely barred with black. Top of head spotted with black, and the 

 jugulum and neck with scattered bars of the same. Wing, 7.50 ; bill, .40 from nostril, 

 and .35 deep. Female (53,526, Fort Anderson, June, 1865 ; MacFarlane). Entire plu- 

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