150 GAME BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA. 
New York, numbered 26,857 and 26,858 respectively, 
from Humbert River, Newfoundland, collected by L. A. 
Zerega on September 15, 1886, which are so like the 
Fort Chimo bird described under Lagopus lagopus that 
the description there given will answer perfectly well for 
them. The shafts of the secondaries in both are pure 
white, and the shafts of primaries are a blackish brown, 
this color extending a little upon the webs near the tips. 
The color of the upper parts is almost identically the 
same, but one of the Newfoundland birds has more 
feathers tipped with grayish white, which is to be ex- 
pected, as the specimen was killed five days later in the 
year than the Fort Chimo bird. If there is a distinct 
race of the Willow Grouse in Newfoundland, then the 
specific form is also found there, and it is very unlikely 
that birds from the same island, so closely allied, would 
maintain recognizable characters sufficient to separate — 
them, when it is notorious that individuals even of the 
same flock vary so greatly from each other, both in color 
and markings, that it is practically impossible to procure 
two exactly alike at any season of the year. When writ- 
ing my monograph of the Tetraonine I had a number 
of Newfoundland birds sent to me Ly the late Professor 
Baird, and I was unable then to discover any character 
sufficient to separate them from other Willow Grouse, 
and before we can accept a new race from that island 
as an established fact I think other and better characters 
than any yet known will have to be established. 
