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Rance.— Arctic regions. In America breeds from northern Alaska, 
northern Banks Land, and central Greenland south to eastern Aleutian Islands, 
central Mackenzie (in the mountains to west central Alberta), central Kee- 
watin, James Bay, and southern Ungava; south in winter to northern British 
Columbia, Saskatchewan Valley, Minnesota, Ontario, and Quebec; accidental 
in Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, Maine, and Massachusetts. 
b. Lagopus lagopus Alleni Srrsnecer. Allen’s Ptarmigan. (301a.] 
Lagopus alba allent StEJNEGER, Auk, I, Oct., 1884, 369. (Newfound- 
land.) 
RanGE.— Newfoundland. 
c. Lagopus lagopus alexadndree GrinneLy. Alexander’s Ptarmigan. [301).] 
Lagopus alerandre GRINNELL, Univ. Calif. Pub. Zool., V, No. 2, Feb. 
18, 1909, 204. (Mountain at Bear Bay, on Peril Strait, Baranof 
Island, Alaska.) 
Rance.— Baranof and adjacent islands west to Shumagin Islands. 
Lagopus rupéstris (GMELIN). 
RanGE.— Northern North America and Greenland. 
a. Lagopus rupestris rupestris (GMELIN). RockPtarmigan. [302.] 
Tetrao rupestris GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 751. (Hudson Bay.) 
Rance.— Arctic America. Breeds from Melville Island to Melville Penin- 
sula and south on the Barren Grounds from Alaska to Ungava; also on alpine 
summits south to central Yukon; south in winter to southern Mackenzie and 
southern Ungava. 
b. Lagopus rupestris reinhardi (BreHM). Reinhardt’s Ptarmigan. [302a.] 
Tetrao reinhardi BrexuM, Lehrbuch Eur. Vogel, II, 1824, 986. (Green- 
land.) 
RancE.— Northern extremity of Ungava, western Cumberland Sound, and 
Greenland. 
c. Lagopus rupestris nélsoni SrrsnecrerR. Nelson’s Ptarmigan. [302b.] 
Lagopus rupestris nelsoni STEJNEGER, Auk, I, July, 1884, 226. (Un- 
alaska, Alaska.) 
RaneGeE.— Unalaska, Akutan, and Unimak islands, Aleutian Islands. 
d, Lagopus rupestris atkhénsis Turner. Turner’s Ptarmigan. [302c.] 
Lagopus mutus atkhensis TURNER, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., V, Aug. 5, 1882, 
227, 230. (Atka Island, Alaska.) 
RanGe.— Atka, one of Aleutian Islands, Alaska. 
