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L. I. ungavus: Ungava ptarmigan. Range 

 Ungava and probably the eastern shore of 

 Hudson Bay. 



Lagopus rupestris: Range Northern North 

 America and Greenland. 



L. r. rupestris: Rock ptarmigan. Range 

 Arctic America. Breeds from Melville 

 Island to Melville Peninsula and south on 

 the Barren Grounds from Alaska to Ungava; 

 also on alpine summits south to central 

 Yukon; south in winter to southern Massa- 

 chusetts and southern Ungava. 



L. r. reinhardti: Reinhardt's ptarmigan. 

 Range Northern extremity of Ungava, 

 western Cumberland Sound, and Green- 

 land. 



L. r. nclsoni: Nelson's ptarmigan. Range 

 Unalaska, Akutan and Unimark Islands, 

 Aleutian Islands. 



L. r. atkhensis: Turner's ptarmigan. Range 

 Atka, one of the Aleutian Islands, 

 Alaska. 



L. r. lownsendi: Townsend's ptarmigan. 

 Range Kiska, one of the Aleutian Islands, 

 Alaska. 



L. r. chamberlaini: Adak ptarmigan. Range 



. Adak, one of the Aleutian Islands, 

 Alaska. 



L. r. dixoni: Dixon's ptarmigan. Range 

 Islands near Sitka, Alaska. 



Lagopus evermanni: Evermann's ptarmigan. 

 Range Attu, one of the Aleutian Islands, 

 Alaska. 



Lagopus welchi: Welch's ptarmigan. 

 Newfoundland. 



Range 



Lagopus leucurus: Range Mountains of 

 Alaska and British Columbia, south in the 

 Rocky Mountains to New Mexico. 

 L. I. leucurus: White-tailed ptarmigan. 

 Range Rocky mountains from northern 

 British Columbia and central Alberta 

 south to Vancouver Island, Washington, 

 north-western Montana, Colorado, and 

 northern New Mexico. 



L. 1. peninsularis: Kenai White-tailed ptar- 

 migan. Range Alpine summits from 

 central Alaska, northern Yukon, and north- 

 western Mackensie south to Cook Inlet 

 region, Kenai Peninsula, and southern 

 Yukon. 



At certain seasons of the year many of 

 our sportsmen hunt through Newfoundland, 

 various parts of the Dominion of Canada, 

 and in Alaska, including several of its off- 

 lying islands. During such trips', they are 

 likely to meet with snow grouse or ptarmigan, 

 and if they obtain any of them, they are 

 naturally desirous of knowing their names 

 or the species they may represent. 



By consulting the RANGES given in the 

 above list, quite a number of these ptarmi- 

 gans can be identified at once from their 

 habitats, that is, at this writing; for, later 

 on, other species or subspecies may be 

 discovered in one or more of the same 

 habitats. However, if one now shoots a 

 ptarmigan in Newfoundland, he may be 



the author from the plate in Nelson's Report 



nelsoni); male in spring. Reproduction of a photograph made by 



