286 Bird Studies. 



Allen's Ptarmigan is only known to inhabit Newfoundland and we have 



• „ , „, . but little knowledije in refrard to its greneral habits. Its 



Allen s Ptarmigan. ^^ » . & . 



Lagopus lagopus aiieni summcr plumage is unknown, but in winter it is a bird 

 ^^^'"' much resembling the Willow Ptarmigan save that the 



shafts of the smaller feathers of the wing are black. 



The Rock Ptarmigan is a bird of Arctic America. It is found in South- 

 ern Labrador and southward to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and in parts of 



Greenland. 

 Rock Ptarmigan j^ j^ ^ ^^^^^^ smaller bird than the Willow Ptarmigan, 



Lagopus rupestns (Gmel.). *-* 



being about thirteen inches and a half long. The general 

 color of the males in summer is grayish brown, marked with a fine zigzag 

 barring of black and buffy white. The feathers of the back are black in 

 their centres, producing large blotches or irregular spots. The middle tail 

 feathers are like the back, the others are blackish tipped with white. The 

 lower parts are much the same in color and markings as the upper parts, but 

 the belly is white. The female in summer is yellowish buff, spotted and 

 barred irregularly with black. Below, the bars are more widely separated, the 

 coloring resembling the upper parts. 



In the winter these birds are white, except that the outer tail feathers 

 are blackish tipped with white, and that the regio7i between the eye and the 

 beak is black. 



Reinhardt's Ptarmigan is found in the northern part of Labrador and 



northward through Greenland. It is a bird closely resembling the Rock 



Ptarmigan, but the character of the barring is broken and 



p . narrower. The female has the back and upper parts largely 



Lagopus rupestris rcinhardi black, the featliers being bordered or spotted on their 



(Brehm). edges with pale buffy. The lower parts are light buff, 



barred broadly with dusky or blackish. 



Welch's Ptarmigan is found in Newfoundland. It is a bird a little 

 smaller than the Willow Ptarmigan. The male, in summer, has the upper 

 parts dark grayish brown, spotted with black and finely mottled with black, 

 dusky and grayish white, and buff. The tail is dusky gray brown and the 



