TOWNSEND’S PTARMIGAN. 
HIS is another species of Ptarmigan that has been 
seen by few naturalists in its wild state, and was 
brought from the Aleutian islands of Kyska and Adak 
by Mr. Townsend, after whom it has been named. Only 
about twenty specimens were procured, and the visitors’ 
sojourn at the islands was too brief for any particular 
knowledge of the birds’ habits to be gained. 
Probably, like other of its relatives in the Aleutian 
chain, it will never become an object for the sportsman’s 
pursuit, the island on which it lives being situated too 
far away from all civilization to be easily accessible. 
LAGOPOUS*RUPESLRAIS LOW NSEND I. 
Geographical Distribution.—Kyska and Adak Islands, Aleu- 
tian Chain. 
Adult Male tu Summer.—General color of entire upper parts, 
including head and neck, together with the breast and flanks, 
raw umber, with a tinge of russet, finely vermiculated with black 
on lower back and rump, more coarsely marked on the other 
parts with black blotches on the head, neck, upper part of back 
and wings; feathers of back, rump, and wings tipped with white; 
some of these white tips are finely spotted with black, giving to 
them a gray appearance; the outer secondaries, tertials, and 
most of the wing-coverts and primaries, pure white, the last hav- 
ing black shafts; the long upper tail-coverts are marked and 
colored like the back, with white tips; tail, clove-brown, nearly 
black, the feathers tipped with white, broadest on the middle 
pair, and decreasing on the outer ones, where it is either hardly 
perceptible or absent altogether; throat, white, mixed with a few 
colored feathers; breast, sides of neck, and flanks, ochraceous, 
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