108 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



LAGOPUS LAGOPUS ALLENI Stejneeer 



Allen's Ptarmigan 



All adult plumages. — Similar to the corresponding ones of Lag opus 

 tagopus albus but with the shafts of the primaries usually chaetura drab 

 to fuscous, broadening terminally, and the distal portion of the remiges 

 often mottled with the same; the shafts of the secondaries and of the 

 greater upper coverts also frequently similarly dark.^- 



Juvenal and downy young. — Similar to those of L. I. albus. 



Adult male.— Wing 187-205 (199.2) ; tail 108-127 (119.3) ; bill from 

 anterior end of nostril to tip 10.2-11 (10.7) ; width of bill at gape 13-13.3 

 (13.1) ; height of bill at angle of gonys 10-10.2 (10.1 mm.).!^ 



Adult female.— Wing 183-193 (189); tail 98-119 (109); bill from 

 anterior end of nostril to tip 10.2-11.8 (11) ; width of bill at gape 12-12.8 

 (12.4) ; height of bill at angle of gonys 10-10.2 (10.1 mm.)." 



Range. — Resident in Newfoundland. 



Type locality. — Newfoundland. 



Lagopus albus (not Tetrao albus Gmelin) Baied, Rep. Pacific R.R. Surv., ix, 1858, 

 633, part (St. John's, Newfoundland) ; Cat. North Amer. Birds, 1859, No. 467, 

 part. — Maynaed, Birds North Amer., 1881, 348, part (Newfoundland). — 

 [Sclater], Ibis, 1889, 261 (Newfoundland). 



Lagopus alba alleni Stejneger, Auk, i, 1884, 369 (Newfoundland; coll. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus,). 



Lagopus lagopus Macoun and Macoun, Cat. Can. Birds, ed. 2, 1909, 223, part 

 (New f oundland ) . 



Lagopus lagopus alleni Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 20. — American 

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

 ed. 3, 1910, 141 ; ed. 4, 1931, 82.— Bendire, Life Hist. North Amer. Birds, i, 1892, 

 75. — Macoun, Cat. Can. Birds, 1900, 206 (Newfoundland).— Macoun and 

 Macoun, Cat. Can. Birds, ed. 2, 1909, 225 (Newfoundland).— Clark, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., xxxviii, 1910, 52 in text (crit.). — Henninger, Wils. Bull., 

 xxii, 1910, 119 (descr. eggs). — Hartert, Vog. pal. Fauna, iii, 1921, 1863 

 (monogr.). — Griscom, Ibis, 1926, 672 (w. Newfoundland). — Bent, U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. Bull. 162, 1932, 191 (habits; distr. ; etc.).— Taverner, Birds Canada, 1934, 

 158, in text. — RooKE, Ibis, 1936, 865 (Newfoundland). — Brooks, Auk, liii, 1936, 

 343 (Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland). — Groebbels, Der Vogel, ii, 1937, 166 

 (data on breeding biology).— Aldrich and Nxnr, Sci. Publ. Cleveland Mus. 

 Nat. Hist., iv, 1939, 19 (e. Newfoundland). — Hellmayr and Conover, Cat. 

 Birds Amer., i. No. 1, 1942, 203 (syn.; distr.). 



L[agopus'\ lagopus alleni Ridgway, Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, 199. 



L[agopus] l[agopus] alleni Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, ed. 5, ii, 1903, 745. — 

 Townsend, Mem. Nutt. Orn. Club, No. 3, 1905, 203, in text.— Austin, Mem. 

 Nuttall Orn. Club, No. 7, 1932, 74, in text (crit.). — Salomonsen, Moults and 



" Freshly killed October and November birds are said to have a faint pinkish flush 

 on the white feathers, but this quickly fades and is not to be seen in the dried skins 

 in the National Museum. 



" Six specimens from Newfoundland. 



" Seven specimens from Newfoundland. 



