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Lagopus lagopus lagopus American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, ed. 2, 

 1895, 113; ed. 3, 1910, 140, part.— Barrows, Michigan Bird Life, 1912, 228.— 

 Stanford, Auk, xxxi, 1914, 399 (near Midvale, Mont., in New Glacier Park).— 

 Townsend, Mem. Nuttall Orn. Club, No. S, 1920, 97 (Essex County, Mass.).— 

 Saunders, Pacific Coast Avif., No. 14, 1921, 58 (Montana; Glacier National 

 Park; spec). — Wood, Misc. Publ. Univ. Michigan Mus. Zool., No. 10, 1923, 35 

 (Killdeer Mountains, Dunn County, N. Dak., Oct., 1909). — Mitchell, Can. 

 Field Nat., xxxviii, 1924, 108 (Saskatchewan; not common winter visitant; 

 spec.).— Racey, Auk, xliii, 1926, 321 (near Red Mountains, Alta Lake region, 

 British Columbia). — Taverner, Birds Western Canada, 1926, 167, in text 

 (distr.).— FoRBUSH, Birds Massachusetts and Other New England States, ii, 

 1927, 37 (descr., habits, New England).— ? Lewis, Auk, xliv, 1927, 64 (nesting; 

 8 miles e. of Romaine, Labrador Peninsula) . — Sutton, Condor, xxxiii, 1931, 157 

 (w. coast Hudson Bay). — Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 30, part. — 

 Hellmayr and Conover, Cat. Birds Amer., i. No. 1, 1942, 201, part (syn. ; distr.). 



[Tetrao] albus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 2, 1788, 750 (Hudson Bay; based on 

 Lagopede de la Baye Hudson Buffon, Ois., ii, 276, pi. 9 ; White Partridge Ellis, 

 Huds., i, pi. 1 ; Edwards, Av. pi. 72 ; White Grows Pennant, Arctic Zool., ii, 

 308).— Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 639, part (Hudson Straits). 



Tetrao albus Lesson, Traite d'Orn., 1831, 501. — Vigors, Zool. Voy. Blossom, 1839, 26 

 nomencl.). — Nuttall, Man. Orn. United States and Canada, Land Birds, 

 ed. 2, 1840, 816. 



Lagopus albus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., xvii, 1817, 203. — Stephens, in 

 Shaw, Gen. Zool., xi, pt. 2, 1819, 292, pi. 20. — Bonaparte, Geogr. and Comp. 

 List, 1838, 44, part.— Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 207; Birds America, 8vo ed., 

 V, 1842, 114, pi. 299.— Baird, Rep. Pacific R.R. Surv., ix, 1858, 633, part (Red 

 River ; Nelson River ; Hudson Bay) ; Cat. North Amer. Birds, 1859, No. 467, 

 part.— CouES, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1861, 227 (Labrador) ; Proc. 

 Essex Inst., v, 1868, 41 (Maine — rare in winter; Essex County, Mass.; spec, 

 (supposed to have been brought from Labrador?)) ; Check List North Amer. 

 Birds, 1874, No. 386, part; ed. 2, 1882, No. 568, part; Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, 

 iii, 1878, 41 (Lewis County, N. Y., 1 spec. May 22, 1876) .— Verrill, Proc. 

 Essex Inst., iii, 1862, 157 (n. Maine in winter). — Elliot, Monogr. Tetraonidae, 

 1865, pis. 17, 18, and text, part. — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. North 

 Amer. Birds, iii, 1874, 457, part, pi. 61, fig. 8, pi. 62, figs. 1-3.— Brewer, Proc. 

 Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., xvii, 1875, 12 (New England; accid.).— Gibbs, U. S. 

 Geol. and Geogr. Surv. Terr. Bull. 5, 1879, 491 (Upper Peninsula, Mich.).— 

 Merriam, Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 233 (Lewis County, N. Y.; in 

 winter); vii, 1882, 238 (Point de Monts, Quebec). — Brewster, Proc. Boston 

 Soc. Nat. Hist., xxii, 1883, 383 (Anticosti Island, breeding). — Groebbels, Der 

 Vogel, ii, 1937, 240, in text (eggs in mixed sets), 383, in text (runt eggs). 



L[agopus] albus Ridgway, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, x, 1874, 382 (Cook 

 County, ne. Illinois, formerly in winter). — Hatch, Bull. Minnesota Acad. Nat. 

 Sci., 1874, 62 (Minnesota; rare) .—Nelson, Bull. Essex Inst., viii, 1876, 122 

 (no longer occurring in ne. Illinois).— Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 

 1884, 586, part. 



[Lagopus] albus Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, 1872, 235, part. 



Lagopus lagopus albus Clark, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxxviii, 1910, 53 in text, 

 part. — Riley, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xxiv, 1911, 233, part (w. side 

 Hudson Bay) ; Can. Alpine Journ., 1912, 58 (Moose Pass branch of Smoky 

 River, Alberta; crit. ; habits). — Oberholser, Auk, xxxiv, 1917, 200, part. — 

 Hartert, Vog. pal. Fauna, iii, 1921, 1862 (monogr.). — Swarth, Univ. California 

 Publ. Zool., XXX, No. 4, 1926, 86 (Atlin region, British Columbia; crit.). — 



