g9Q APPENDIX. 



P. campestris is shaded above with irregular spottiiigs and barrings <jf black ami brownish Wing coverts, 

 with large round white spots, and the scapulars are streaked with white. White beneath, with numerous V- 

 shaped marks of of dusky. The Prairie Sharp-tailed Grouse is a well-marked, paler form of this, which oc- 

 curs on the plains and prairies east of the Rocky Mountains, east to Wisconsin, north to Manitoba"and isouth 



to New, Mexico. 



DIMENSIONS. 



Length, 17.50 to 18.50: stretch, 2(5.50 to 28.50. Wing, 8.U0 to 8.50: tail, 4,75 to 5.25; bill, .sO to 



.87; tarsus, 1.70 to 1.72. 



DESCRIPTION OF NESTS AND EGUS. 



Nests placed on the ground, composed of a little grass. Eggs, from six to thirteen in number, pointed 



oval in form, varying from clay to greenish brown in color, sometimes unmarked, but usually speckled with 



fine spottings of dark brown. 



Bonasa umbel lus togata- 



Canadian RuiTed Grouse. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Sub Sp. Ch. Form, similar to that of the Common Ruffed Grouse but the size is larger and the colors 

 darker, beincf rather more gray than reddish. Occurs in the wooded section of Northern New England 

 northward. The Ruffed Grouse is found on Cape Cod and the islands along the south shore, are typical, B. 

 umhellus, bein" quite red in coloration, liut those from other portions of Eastern Massachusetts are often 

 ( in fact are usually ) intermediate in plumage between this and tlie northern form, yet I see no reason why 

 the constantly gray form of the north should not be recognized sub-specifically. 



Lagopus aibus alien! 

 Alien s Ptarmigan, 



DESCRIPTION. 



Sub Sp. Ch. Size, form and general coloration similar to those of the White Ptarmigan, but differs in 

 havinn not only the white spots of both primaries and secondaries black, but this color also extends to a greater 

 or less extent to the web of the primaries, sometimes forming black patches on the terminations of the feath- 



6rs. 



OBSERVATIONS. 



Possibly on account of its isolated range on Newfoundland, this well marked form of Ptarmigan ought to 

 be considered as a species, but as it has been affirmed that the White Ptarmigan, in its wandering migrations, 

 crosses the Straits of Belle Isle, it becomes questionable whether some do not remain and breed there, thus 

 still producing hybrids between the two forms. 



LAGOPUS REINHARDTi. 



Reinhardt's Ptarmigan. 

 DESCRIPTION. 



Sp. Ch .Form, size and general coloration similar to the Rock Ptarmigan, but in summer is less regular- 

 ly and more coarsely banded above, where the black predominates, varied with pale grayish bufl'. Occurs as 

 a resident in Greenland. 



LAGOPUS WELCH!. 



Welch's Ptarmigan. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Sp. Ch. Similar in form, size and general coloration to Reinhardt's ptarmigan but differs in summer 

 in being grayer above, which color is marked with fine vermicalations of black. From the Rock Ptai-migan 



