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b. Lagopus leucurus peninsularis CHAPMAN. Kenai White-tailed Ptarmigan. 
[304a.] 
Lagopus leucurus peninsularis CHAPMAN, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., XVI, 
1902, 236. (Kenai Mountains, Alaska.) 
RanGeE.— Alpine summits from central Alaska, northern Yukon, and 
northwestern Mackenzie south to Cook Inlet region, Kenai Peninsula, and 
southern Yukon. 
GENUS TYMPANUCHUS GLoGeEr. 
Tympanuchus GLoGER, Hand- und Hilfsbuch, 1842, 396. Type, by 
monotypy, Tetrao cupido LINN&XUS. 
Tympantchus americanus (REICHENBACH). 
RANGE.— Central North America from southern central Canada 
south to northern Texas and east (formerly) to Ohio. 
a. Tympanuchus americanus americanus (REICHENBACH). Prairie Chicken. 
[305.] 
Cupidonia americana REICHENBACH, Syst. Avium, 1852, xxix. (Amer- 
ica.) 
Rance.— Southeastern Saskatchewan and southern Manitoba to eastern 
Colorado, northeastern Texas, Arkansas, western Kentucky, and Indiana; 
probably extinct east of Indiana but formerly reached southwestern Ontario, 
Michigan, and northwestern Ohio. 
b. Tympanuchus americanus attwateri BunpirE. Attwater’s Prairie Chicken. 
[305a.] 
Tympanuchus attwatert BENDIRE, Forest and Stream, XL, No. 20, May 
18, 1893, 425. (Refugio Co., Texas.) 
RanGE.— Coast region of Texas and southwestern Louisiana. 
Tympanuchus cupido (LINN«&us). Heath Hen. [306.] 
Tetrao cupido Linnmus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 160. (‘‘ Virginia” 
[probably Pennsylvania or New York].) 
Rance.— Island of Marthas Vineyard, Mass. Formerly southern 
New England and parts of the Middle States. 
