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York (Watson, Lewis County) ; Nova Scotia; and Maine (Kenduskeag). 

 Type locality. — Western side of Hudson Bay. 



Tetrao . . . lagopus (not of Linnaeus) Forster, Philos. Trans., Ixii, 1772, 390. 



Tetrao lagopiis Nuttall, Man. Orn. United States and Canada, Land Birds, 1832, 

 671; ed. 2, 1840, 813 (Melville Island; Churchill River). 



T[etrao] lagopus Douglas, Trans. Linn. See. London, xvi, 3, 1829, 146 (Rocky 

 Mountains, lat. 54° and northward ; "on the northwest coast ... as low as 

 4S°7', the position of Mount Hood"). 



Lagoptis lagopus Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 20, part. — ^American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, No. 301, part, 1886; ed. 2, 1895, No. 301, 

 part. — Seton, Auk, iii, 1886, 153 (e. shore Lake Winnipeg; Norway House).— 

 Macfarlane, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiv, 1891, 430 (Fort Anderson, lower Ander- 

 son River, etc., Mackenzie; habits; descr. nest and eggs). — Thompson, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1891, 514 (Manitoba). — Hatch, Notes Birds Minnesota, 

 1892, 162, 457 (rare; distr.; spec.).— Bendire, Life Hist. North Amer. Birds, i, 

 1892, 69, part.— Merrill, Auk, ix, 1892, 300 (Kenduskeag, Maine, 1892).— 

 Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxii, 1893, 40, part (North American 

 localities, except Alaska and Fort Chimo, Ungava) ; Handb. Game Birds, i, 

 1896, 36, part. — Clark, Auk, xi, 1894, 177 (spec, from Nova Scotia with rose- 

 tinted plumage).— Ames, Auk, xiv, 1897, 411 (Whitby, Ontario, May IS, 1897). 

 —Nash, Check List Birds Ontario, 1900, 26 (winter visitor in Ontario). — 

 Macoun, Cat. Can. Birds, 1900, 205, part (Hudson Bay westward). — Preble, 

 North Amer. Fauna, No. 22, 1902, 103 (SO miles n. of York Factory northward ; 

 localities in Keewatin). — Kumuen and Hollister, Bull. Wisconsin Nat. Hist. 

 Soc., iii, 1903, 57 (rare straggler to Wisconsin) .—Judd, U. S. Biol. Surv. Bull. 

 24, 1905, 44-46, part (distr.; food; etc.).— [Nash], Check List Vert. Ontario: 

 Birds, 1905, 35 (Ontario; winter; spec). — Townsend, Mem. Nuttall Orn. Club 

 No. 3, 1905, 202, 203 in text (Essex County, Massachusetts; accid.). — Fleming, 

 Auk, xxiv, 1907, 71 (Whitby, Ontario, May 15, 1897).— Knight, Birds Maine, 

 1908, 205 (Kenduskeag, Maine, April 23, 1892).— Macoun and Macoun, Cat. 

 Can. Birds, 1909, 223, part (Hudson Bay westward) .—Cory, Publ. Field Mus. 

 Nat. Hist. No. 131, 1909, 438 (Racine, Wis., 2 spec, Dec. 1840; formerly 

 winter visitant to extreme ne. Illinois ?). — Eaton, Birds New York, i, 1910, 

 375 (Watson, Lewis County, N. Y., 1 spec). — ^Dexter, Auk, xxxix, 1922, 269 

 Green Lake, Saskatchewan, 4 spec, Dec. 1920) . — Taverner, Birds Western Can- 

 ada, 1926, 168 (fig.; descr.; habits; distr.; w. Canada). — Taverner and Sutton, 

 Ann. Carnegie Mus., xxiii, 1934, 30 (Churchill, Manitoba; breeds abundantly; 

 habits) . — Baillie and Harrington, Contr. Roy. Ontario Mus. Zool., No. 8, pt. 1, 

 1936, 29 (Ontario, only along extreme northern edge; prob. fairly common in 

 summer; two breeding records). — Ulke, Can. Alpine Journ., 1934-35 (1936), 

 79 (Yoho Park, Canada; summer; very rare). — ? Brassard and Bernard, Auk, 

 liv, 1937, S14 in text (n. Quebec; food; captivity studies). — Shortt and Waller, 

 Contr. Roy. Ontario Mus. Zool., No. 10, 1937, 18 (Lake St. Martin region, 

 Manitoba; common; winter; spec). — Ricker and Clarke, Contr. Roy. Ontario 

 Mus. Zool., No. 16, 1939, 8 (Lake Nipissing, Ontario). — Clarke, Nat. Mus. 

 Canada Bull. 96, 1940, 48 (Thelon Game Sanctuary, nw. Canada) .— Hawksley, 

 Auk, lix, 1942, 436 (Churchill, Manitoba). 



L[agopus] lagopus Ridgway, Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, 199, part.— Reichenow, 

 Die Vogel, i, 1913, 323, part.— Taverner, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. SO, 1928, 92 

 (near Belvedere, Alberta). 

 [Lagopus\ lagopus Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 18, part. 



