ORDER GALLING. 143 



6. Lagopus leucurus peninsularis CHAPMAN. Kenai White-tailed Ptarmigan. 

 [9040.] 



Lagopus leucurus peninsularis CHAPMAN, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., XVI, 

 1902, 236. (Kenai Mountains, Alaska.) 



RANGE. Alpine summits from central Alaska, northern Yukon, and 

 northwestern Mackenzie south to Cook Inlet region, Kenai Peninsula, and 

 southern Yukon. 



GENUS TYMPANUCHUS GLOGER. 



Tympanuchus GLOGER, Hand- und Hilfsbuch, 1842, 396. Type, by 

 monotypy, Tetrao cupido LINNAEUS. 



Tympanuchus americanus (REICHENBACH). 



RANGE. Central North America from southern central Canada 

 south to northern Texas and east (formerly) to Ohio. 



a. Tympanuchus americanus americanus (REICHENBACH). Prairie Chicken. 



[305.] 



Cupidonia americana REICHENBACH, Syst. Avium, 1852, xxix. (Amer- 

 ica.) 



RANGE. Southeastern Saskatchewan and southern Manitoba to eastern 

 Colorado, northeastern Texas, Arkansas, western Kentucky, and Indiana; 

 probably extinct east of Indiana but formerly reached southwestern Ontario, 

 Michigan, and northwestern Ohio. 



b. Tympanuchus americanus attwateri BENDIRE. Attwater's Prairie Chicken. 



[305a.] 



Tympanuchus attwateri BENDIRE, Forest and Stream, XL, No. 20, May 

 18, 1893, 425. (Refugio Co., Texas.) 



RANGE. Coast region of Texas and southwestern Louisiana. 



Tympanuchus cupido (LINNAEUS). Heath Hen. [306.] 



Tetrao cupido LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 160. ("Virginia" 

 [probably Pennsylvania or New York].) 



RANGE. Island of Marthas Vineyard, Mass. Formerly southern 

 New England and parts of the Middle States. 



