WILLOIV PTARMIGAN. 



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less and tame, rarely making any very serious effort 

 to escape from man (even in more southern localities, 

 where they are nuicli hunted), that it is not a very diffi- 

 cult matter, even without firearms, to secure at one time 

 rnou^h to satisfy the members of a moderately large 

 community. 



LA GO PUS LA GO PUS. 



Geoi^raphical Distrihution. — Arctic regions of both Hemi- 

 spheres. In America ranj^inj^ south to Sitka and British Prov- 

 itices, NewfouncUand, accidental in New Knj^land. 



Adult Male in Sumtmr Plumai^e. — Top of head, back of neck, 

 and entire upper parts, barred with chestnut, ochraceous, and 

 black, some feathers having their central porti )ns all black, form- 

 ing blotches, and more or less of the feathers tipped with grayish 

 white; scapulars and tertialslike the back; primaries, white, with 

 dark brown shafts; secondaries, white, with white shafts; in some 

 specimens the shafts of the primaries are nearly black, and the 

 coloring extends over a portion of the inner web; throat, sides of 

 neck, and breast, light chestnut, darkest on lower part of breast, 

 barred everywhere except on throat with black; flanks, dark 

 brown, barred and mottled with black, occasionally a buff bar 

 appearing among the black ones; entire rest of under parts, with 

 legs and toes, pure white; upper tail-coverts, like the back; tail, 

 black, extreme base and tip, white; bill, black. Total length, 

 about 14 inches; wing, 7J; tail, 5^. 



Some examples have the sides of head, throat, fore neck, and 

 upper parts of breast uniform chestnut, becoming darker at 

 times, indeed almost black toward the white under parts. 



Adult Female in Summer Plumage. — Top of head, back of 

 neck, and entire upper parts, with upper tail-coverts, black, barred 

 with ochraceous, and feathers tipped with white; scapulars, ter- 

 tials, and some of the wing-coverts, like the back ; throat, sides 

 and front of neck, buff, with an och^-aceous tinge on cheeks, 

 barred irregularly with black, the bars taking more the form of 

 spots on the throat; entire rest of under parts and under tail- 

 coverts, buflf, coarsely barred with black, some feathers having 

 nearly white tips; primaries and secondaries, white, the former 

 with dark brown shafts; tail, brownish black, tipped with white, 



