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RANGE. Arctic regions. In America breeds from northern Alaska, 

 northern Banks Land, and central Greenland south to eastern Aleutian Islands, 

 central Mackenzie (in the mountains to west central Alberta), central Kee- 

 watin, James Bay, and southern Ungava; south in winter to northern British 

 Columbia, Saskatchewan Valley, Minnesota, Ontario, and Quebec; accidental 

 in Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, Maine, and Massachusetts. 



b. Lagopus lagopus alleni STEJNEGER. Allen's Ptarmigan. [301a.] 



Lagopus alba alleni STEJNEGEB, Auk, I, Oct., 1884, 369. (Newfound- 

 land.) 



RANGE. Newfoundland. 



c. Lagopus lagopus alexandrae GRINNELL. Alexander's Ptarmigan. [3016.] 



Lagopus alexandra GRINNELL, Univ. Calif. Pub. Zool., V, No. 2, Feb. 

 18, 1909, 204. (Mountain at Bear Bay, on Peril Strait, Baranof 

 Island, Alaska.) 



RANGE. Baranof and adjacent islands west to Shumagin Islands. 



Lagopus rupestris (GMELIN). 



RANGE. Northern North America and Greenland. 



a. Lagopus rupestris rupestris (GMELIN). Rock Ptarmigan. [302.] 



Tetrao rupestris GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 751. (Hudson Bay.) 



RANGE. Arctic America. Breeds from Melville Island to Melville Penin- 

 sula and south on the Barren Grounds from Alaska to Ungava ; also on alpine 

 summits south to central Yukon; south in winter to southern Mackenzie and 

 southern Ungava. 



b. Lagopus rupestris reinhardi (BREHM). Reinhardt's Ptarmigan. [302a.] 



Tetrao reinhardi BREHM, Lehrbuch Eur. Vogel, II, 1824, 986. (Green- 

 land.) 



RANGE. Northern extremity of Ungava, western Cumberland Sound, and 

 Greenland. 



c. Lagopus rupestris nelsoni STEJNEGER. Nelson's Ptarmigan. [302&.] 



Lagopus rupestris nelsoni STEJNEGER, Auk, I, July, 1884, 226. (Un- 

 alaska, Alaska.) 



RANGE. Unalaska, Akutan, and Unimak islands, Aleutian Islands. 



d. Lagopus rupestris atkhe*nsis TURNER. Turner's Ptarmigan. [302c.] 



Lagopus mutus atkhensis TURNER, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, Aug. 5, 1882, 

 227, 230. (Atka Island, Alaska.) 



RANGE. Atka, one of Aleutian Islands, Alaska. 



