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vinaceous-rufous suffusion, spotted and blotched with clove-brown or dark 

 claret-red, 1*65 x 1*18 (Bendire). Date, n. Lab., June 16. 



"In its general manners and mode of living it is said to resemble 

 albus [==L. lagopus], but does not retire so far into the wooded country 

 in the winter" (B., B., and R.). 



302a. L. r. reinhardi (Brehm). REINHARDT'S PTARMIGAN. Ad. & 

 summer. Similar to corresponding plumage of L. r. rupestris but less 

 heavily and regularly barred above, breast more finely barred. Ads. in fall 

 (preliminary winter) plumage. Similar to corresponding plumage of L. r. 

 rupestris but much grayer. Ads. in winter. Not distinguishable from L. r. 

 rupestris in winter. 



Range. Northern extremity of Ungava, w. Cumberland Sound, and 

 Greenland. 



"They prefer more open ground, and rarely straggle even into the 

 skirts of the wooded tracts. The hilltops and barrens (hence often 

 called the Barren Ground Bird) are their favorite resorts" (Turner). 



303. Lagopus welchi Brewst. WELCH'S PTARMIGAN. Ad. <? in breeding 

 plumage. Upperparts black, the head and neck barred with white and 

 ochraceous-buff, the back and wing-coverts finely and irregularly marked 

 with wavy lines of buffy and white; tail grayish fuscous, tipped with white; 

 throat white, foreneck like hindneck, breast and sides like back; rest of 

 underparts white. Ads. in fall (preliminary winter] plumage. Not seen, 

 but back and breast doubtless with finely vermiculated black and white 

 feathers. Ad. 9 breeding plumage. Similar to corresponding plumage of 

 rupestris. Ads. in winter. Similar to winter ads. of rupestris. W., 7*25; B. 

 from N., '35; depth of B. at N., '32. 



Remarks. This is a much blacker and grayer bird than L. r. rupestris, 

 and in this respect it appears most nearly to approach Rock Ptarmigan 

 from Sitka (L. r. dixoni?). (For comparison with rupestris see Stejneger, 

 The Auk, 1885, 193.) 



Range. Newfoundland. 



Nest, a slight hollow in the moss, lined with a few feathers. Eggs, 8, 

 similar to those of Lagopus rupestris. Date, N. F., June 3 (Thayer Coll.). 



"According to Mr. Welch, these Ptarmigan are numerous in New- 

 foundland, where they are strictly confined to the bleak sides and sum- 

 mits of rocky hills and mountains of the interior" (Brewster). 



305. Tympanuchus americanus americanus (Reich.). PRAIRIE 

 CHICKEN. Ad. &. Upperparts barred with rufous and black and spotted 

 with rufous; sides of neck with tufts generally composed of ten or more 

 narrow, stiffened black feathers marked with buffy and rufous, their ends 

 rounded, the skin beneath these tufts bare ; tail rounded, fuscous, the inner 

 feathers somewhat mottled with ochraceous-buff, tip white; throat buffy, 

 breast and belly white, evenly barred with black. Ad. 9. Similar, but neck 

 tufts much smaller and tail barred with ochraceous-buff or rufous. L., 18'00; 

 W., 9-00; T., 4-00; B. from N., '52. 



Range. SE. Sask. and s. Man. to e. Colo., ne. Tex., Ark., w. Ky., and 

 Ind.; probably extinct e. of Ind.; but formerly reached sw. Ont., Mich., and 

 nw. Ohio. 



Glen Ellyn, P. R., fairly plentiful locally. SE. Minn., P. R., much de- 

 creased in numbers. 



Nest, on the ground. Eggs, 11-14, buffy olive, sometimes finely speckled 

 with brownish, 1*70 x 1'25. Date, Jasper Co., Iowa., May 2. 



