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perish in the sudden squalls of that changeable climate. 
They utter a soft pe-pe-pe, and are at first indistin- 
guishable from the young of the Willow Grouse. 
The food of this bird is the usual variety of seeds, 
insects, leaves, berries, and buds of different plants and 
trees, and one individual had his crop filled with sphag- 
num moss. They go in small coveys, and but one brood 
is raised in a season; each covey being composed, proba- 
bly, of members of the same brood. The eggs, deposited 
in June in a nest similar to that of the Rock Ptarmigan, 
are absolutely indistinguishable from those of that 
species. 
LAGOPUS KRUPEST RIS REINHARDT. 
Geographical Destribution.—Northern Labrador, and islands 
on the west shore of Cumberland Gulf, Greenland. 
Adult Male in Summer.—Very similar in general pattern of 
markings, and in coloration to Z. rupestrzs, but not so regularly 
barred above, and the bars much coarser. 
Adult Female tn Summer.—Nautiltk, Cumberland Gulf.—\n 
general appearance this is a black and white bird, with the 
black predominating; top of head, back, rump, and upper tail- 
coverts, black, with from one to three buffy white spots on the 
outer edge of the webs, and each feather more or less distinctly 
tipped with white; a few feathers, mottled with pale buff and 
white for about one-third their length from the tip, are scattered 
over the back, these probably belonging to the plumage charac- 
teristic of autumn, and which will next be assumed; the throat, 
sides of head, and neck all around are buffy white, barred nar- 
rowly with black; scapulars, most of the secondaries, and greater 
wing-coverts are colored like the back, but all the feathers are 
tipped with white, giving this part a black and white appear- 
ance, with only occasionally pale buff spots showing; feathers of 
under parts, flanks, and under tail-coverts, barred with black and 
light buff, and tipped with white, but the black predominates; 
the flank feathers have much broader bars of both black and pale 
buff, and the latter is more conspicuous here than on any other 
part of the bird; tail, seal brown, edged with white at the tips; 
