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Lagopus rupestris reinhardi (Brehm). 
REINHARDT’S PTARMIGAN. 
Common permanent resident in the extreme north. 
Bigelow says that it is probably this race that is found north of 
Okkak. They migrate back and forth across Davis Strait in spring 
and fall. 
Dr. Grenfell told us that they gather at Cape Chidley in multitudes in 
the spring just before their annual migration across the Hudson Straits. 
They are killed by the Moravians and Eskimos in great numbers and 
barrelled. He illustrated the abundance of this bird in winter as well 
as its tameness and the skill of the Eskimos with the whip by the 
following anecdote. During a three-day sledge trip made in winter 
by the Rev. S. M. Stewart from the George River to Fort Chimo his 
Eskimo driver succeeded in killing 500 ptarmigan by cutting off their 
heads with his long whip. 
Pedioecetes phasianellus (Linn.). 
SHARP-TAILED GROUSE. 
Uncommon permanent resident in southwestern Labrador. 
Low says that it has been killed in winter at Great Whale River, 
and states that its northern limit in Labrador is at lat. 57°. He took 
a set of eggs on May 20, 1889, at Fort George, on James Bay. Spread- 
borough states that it is said to be common at Fort George in winter, 
and one was shot on June 18, 1896, a short distance south of Fort 
George, James Bay. Fleming (’06) records, that according to Bishop 
Newnham, there is a fall migration of these birds from the northeast, 
to be observed at Moose Factory, ‘“‘usually when the marsh hay is 
being gathered.”’ 
Ectopistes migratorius (Linn.). 
PASSENGER PIGEON. 
Formerly very rare, now extirpated. 
Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway say of this bird: ‘“‘On the coast of 
Hudson’s Bay it reaches no farther than the 58th parallel, and only in 
