Mr. W. E. Ogilvie-Grant on American Gallinae. 233 
Corazon, but that mountaiu is also getting largely exploited 
for them. In places at present unexplored by the Quitenos 
we found them abundant. They afford good sport, and 
their flesh is as fine as any that I have eaten. Local name 
'' Perdriz.'' 
XV. — Remarks on the Species of American Gallinae recently 
described, and Notes on their Nomenclature. By W. R. 
Ogilvie-Grant. 
Since the publication of the twenty-second volume of the 
' Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum " in 1893 a 
number of nevr species and subspecies of American Game- 
birds have been described. Belovr will be found a list of 
them, with remarks on and identifications of those which are 
not considered valid by the writer, and with his reasons 
for proposing to suppress them. 
The numbers preceding the specific names are those used 
in the ' Catalogue of Birds ' : the position of the new species 
admitted as valid is indicated by such symbols as " 1 a.^ 
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6. Lagopus leucurus (Cat. B. xxii. p. 52). 
Lagopus leucurus altipetens Osgood, Auk, xviii. p. 180 
(1901) [Colorado]. 
I have compared three adult males in autumn plumage 
from Colorado (one being from Blaine^s Peak, the typical 
locality of L. I. altipetens) with two males and a female in 
autumn plumage from the Cascade Mountains, and find them 
absolutely identical. 
1. Canachites canadensis (op. cit. p. 69). 
Canachites canadensis labradorius Bangs, P. N. Eng. Zool 
Club, i. p. 47 (1899) [Labrador]. 
Canachites canadensis osgoodi Bishop, Auk, xvii. p. 114 
(1900) [North-west Territory, Northern British Columbia, 
and Alaska north to the coast mountains]. 
Canachites canadensis (Linn.) Norton, Pr. Portland Soc. 
N. H. ii. p. 151 (1901) [Labrador and Hudson Bay]. 
