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Sequence of Plumage in Rock Ptarmigan, 1939, 263 in text (Newfoundland; 

 molts and plumages). 



L[agopus]' [[agopits] alleni Taveener, Birds Eastern Canada, 1919, 110 in text 

 (Newfoundland) . 



[Lagopus lagopus] subsp. a. Lagopus alleni Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 

 xxii, 1893,, 44, SS7 (spec. Newfoundland). 



Lagopus (rf/«i» Ogilvie-Geant, Handb. Game Birds, i, 1896, 38, in text (New- 

 foundland; crit.). 



[Lagopus] alleni Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 18. 



LAGOPUS MUTUS EVERMANNI Elliot 



Evermann's Ptarmigan 



Adult male, summer. — -Anterior forehead white with a faint buffy wash ; 

 rest of forehead and the short supraorbital marks white; crown, occiput, 

 nape, and upper interscapulars fuscous-black finely barred with tawny- 

 olive to Saccardo's umber; rest of interscapulars deep chaetura black 

 narrowly tipped with tawny-olive; the back, rump, upper tail coverts, 

 inner secondaries, and some of the inner lesser and median upper wing 

 coverts fuscous-black faintly vermiculated with tawny-olive to Saccardo's 

 umber; some of these dorsal feathers darker — deep chaetura drab — and 

 without any tawny ; outer upper wing coverts and some of the inner ones 

 as well, the primaries and all but the innermost secondaries pure white, 

 the primaries (except the outermost one) with dusky shafts; rectrices 

 plain fuscous-black to chaetura black; loreal band blackish; auriculars 

 and cheeks fuscous-black, the feathers tipped with white and faintly banded 

 with tawny-olive ; chin, throat, and lower sides of head white ; upper breast 

 deep chaetura black narrowly tipped with white; sides similar but with 

 some white feathers mixed in lower breast, abdomen, flanks, thighs, under 

 tail coverts, under wing coverts, and feathering of feet white; bill and 

 claws black; comb bright scarlet. 



Adult female, summer. — Feathers covering nostrils white with a faint 

 buffy wash; forehead, crown, occiput, nape, scapulars, interscapulars, 

 back, rump, upper tail coverts, inner secondaries, and some of the inner 

 upper wing coverts deep chaettira "black, each feather with wavy bars of 

 ochraceous-buff, and tipped with white or buffy white ; rest of upper wing 

 coverts, primaries, outer secondaries, and under wing coverts white, the 

 primaries, except the outermost one with pale brownish shafts ; sides of 

 head, chin, and throat pale ochraceous-buff, each feather with a fuscous- 

 black to blackish median streak, these streaks widening terminally in 

 the feathers of the lower throat ; feathers of breast, sides, flanks, and under 

 tail coverts, chaetura black broadly tipped and banded with ochraceous- 

 buff; abdomen similar but with a great many white feathers mixed in; 

 thighs and feathering of feet white ; bill and claws black. 



