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PTARMIGANS. 



brown dress in summer, fig. 180 ; entire feet, thickly feath- 

 ered ; upper tail coverts elongated, sometimes as long, or , 

 longer than tail. Tail, in all of our species, black. 



Fig. 179. 1. WILLOW PTAR- 



MIGANS. L. LAGOPUS. 

 15.00; shafts of seconda- 

 ries, white. Summer 

 dress ; reddish-cinnamon 

 excepting a greater por- 

 tion of wings, middle un- 

 der parts, aisn d feet, 

 wl licli remain white, 

 X*9 B, c, 1. 1-8. spotted and banded above 



and finely banded across breast and on sides with black. 

 Breeds in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions, in America south to 

 Sitka and the British Provinces; accidental inN. E. (Me. and 

 Mass.). 



1*. ALLEN'S PTARMIGAN, L. l. alleni. Shafts of 

 secondaries, black ; primaries, more or less blotched with dus- 

 ky. Newfoundland. 



2. ROCK PTARMIGAN, L. rupestris. 14.00; bill, 

 small and sleader; lores, black. Summer dress; grayish 

 above, coarsely and irregularly banded and mottled with 

 black; top of head, blackish, featbers tipped with reddish; 

 sides of head and throat mixed white and dusky ; upper 

 breast and sides, brownish, barred with dusky; remaining 

 under parts, white. Arctic America south to Alaska, Labra- 

 dor, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 



2*. REINHARDT'S 

 PTARMIGAN, L. r. rein- 

 HARDi. Differs from 2 in 

 summer in being less regu- 

 larly and more coarsely 

 banded above, where the 

 black predominates, varied 

 with pale grayish-buff. 

 Greenland, western shores 

 of Cumberland Gulf, and 

 northern Labrador. Ir», B, c, 1. 1- 



Fig. 180. 



