REINHARDT'S PTARMIGAN. I55 



perish in the sudden squalls of that changeable climate. 

 They utter a soft pe-pc-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 RUPESTRIS REINHARDTI. 



Geographical Distribution. — 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 L. rupestris, but not so regularly 

 barred above, and the bars much coarser. 



Adult Female in Summer. — Nautilik, Cumberland Gulf. — In 

 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; 



