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sides and chest are rich hazel, except for the black barring every- 
where and for white wedges in the scapular region. In the most 
fully plumaged males the dorsum is almost uniform sooty sepia, 
there being but little of the fine hazel vermiculation. In other 
words, this Alaskan series exhibits the extreme manifestation of 
fuliginosus characters. A full natal-plumaged chick was taken 
June 25 at Hooniah, and another chick somewhat larger, molting 
from natal into juvenal, at Glacier Bay July 10. A half-grown 
female bird from Rodman Bay, August 13, is still largely in 
juvenal plumage, but shows a good deal of the adult pimmage 
in the back. 
A set of half-inecubated. eggs was obtained at Pleasant Bay 
near Mole Harbor, Admiralty Island, June 2. The nest was 
a mere shallow depression scratched in the moss and fallen bark 
on the up-hill side of a hemlock, and at its foot. There was 
a lining of feathers from the female parent. The eggs, which 
were preserved, are ovate in shape, and measure: 49 X 35, 
00 X 34.5, 51 X 36, 50.5 X 36.7, 49 XK 35.5, 52 & 37, 50 X 37. 
The ground color is deep cream-buff, profusely and quite evenly 
covered with dots and smallish spots of isabella color. They re- 
semble most closely fig. 16, pl. 1, of Bendire’s Life Histories, 1, 
1892. 
Lagopus alexandrae, new species. 
Alexander Willow Ptarmigan. 
TyprE.—Male adult; No. 319, U. C. M. V. Z.; mountain at 
Bear Bay( on Peril Strait), Baranof Island, Alaska; August 26, 
1907; collected by Frank Stephens (shot by a local hunter). 
CHARACTERS.—Similar to Lagopus lagopus from northwestern 
Alaska and Labrador in corresponding plumage, but coloration 
darker throughout, especially dorsally ; bill smaller and relatively 
much narrower. 
ReEMARKS.—Six willow ptarmigan were obtained within the 
Sitkan District, whence 1 know of no examples in summer plu- 
mage having been recorded previous to this. These are: an adult 
male (No. 373) taken near Hooniah, Chichagof Island, June 25; 
an adult male (No. 357) and two half-grown juvenals (Nos. 358, 
male, and 359, female) taken on the mainland on the east side 
