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Lagopus rupestris Dall and Bannister, Trans. Chicago Acad. Sci., i, 1869, 289 

 (Gens de Large Mountains and Fort Yukon, Alaska). — Nelson. Bull. Nutall 

 Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 38, part (Unalaska Island, Akutan Island, and St. Michael, 

 Alaska) ; Cruise Corwin in 1881 (1883), 81 (Unalaska) ; Kept. Nat. Hist. Coll. 

 Alaska, 1887, 136, part (Alaska mainland) .— McLenegan, Cruise Corwin, 1884, 

 119 (Kowak River, nw. Alaska) .—Mukdoch, Auk, ii, 188S, 63 (Point Barrow, 

 Alaska) ; Rep. Int. Polar Exped. Point Barrow, 188S, 108.— Turneb, Contr. Nat. 

 Hist. Alaska, 1886, 154, part (Unalaska and Alaska mainland). — Ogilvie-Grant, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxii, 1893, 48, part (Golsova River, Kegitowik, Nulata, 

 and Kotzebue Sound, Alaska) . — Grinnell, Pacific Coast Avif ., No. 1, 1900, 35, 



75 (Kotzebue Sound region and Kowak Valley Alaska; habits; plum.; breed.). 

 —Bishop, North Amer. Fauna, No. 19, 1900, 72 (summit of White Pass, 

 Alaska; breed.; Kuskokwim River). — Osgood, North Amer. Fauna, No. 21, 

 1901, 75 (mountains on n. side Bear Creek, Cook Inlet, Alaska) ; No. 30, 1909, 

 37 (mountains at head of Seward Creek, east-central Alaska) ; 60 (Ogilvie 

 Range, Yukon Territory) ; 87 (Russell Mountains, Macmillan River region, 

 Yukon; habits) .—Judd, Biol. Surv. Bull., No. 24, 1905, 46, part (food, range, 

 etc.) — Preble, North Amer. Fauna, No. 27, 1908, 347, part (localities in Alaska). 

 — Anderson, Rep. Dept. Mines Canada for 1914 (1915), 195 (CoUinson Point, 

 Alaska; spec), for 1916 (1917), (?) 379 (Arctic coast of Northwest Territory; 

 spec). — Laing and Taverner, Ann. Rep. Nat. Mus. Canada for 1927 (1929), 



76 (Chitina River, Alaska). — Fhiedmann, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., xxxi, 

 1941, 407 (Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska; bones). 



L[agopus] rupestris Friedmann, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., xxvii, 1937, 436 

 (Unalaska) . 



Lagopus rupestris nelsoni Stejneger, Auk, i, 1884, 226 (Unalaska Island, Aleutian 

 Chain, Alaska; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); Zeitschr. Ges. Orn,, i, 1884, 91.— 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, No. 302b, 1886; ed. 2, 1895, 

 No. 302b; ed. 3, 1910; ed. 4, 1931, 83, 141.— Townsend, Cruise Corwin in 1885 

 (1887), 100 (Unalaska) .—Nelson, Rep. Nat. Hist. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 131, 

 138, pi. 10.— Bendire, Life Hist. North Amer. Birds, i, 1892, 80.— ^Macoun, 

 Cat. Can. Birds, 1900, 208 (Unalaska eastward). — Osgood, North Amer. Fauna, 

 No. 24, 1904, 66 (Portage Mountain, between head of Chulitna River and Swan 

 Lake; mountains of Kanatak Portage and about Cold Bay; food; crit.). — 

 McGregor, Condor, viii, 1906, 119 (Unalaska). — Macoun and Macoun, Cat. 

 Can. Birds, ed. 2, 1909, 227 (Unalaska eastward) .—Clark, Proc U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., xxxviii, 1910, 55 (Unalaska) .—Bent, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 162, 1932, 

 215 (habits, etc.).— Swarth, Pacific Coast Avif., No. 22, 1934, 26 (Alaska; 

 Akutan and Unalaska Islands; spec). — Eyerdam, Murrelet, xvii, 1936, SO 

 (distr. ; spec). 



L[agopus] rupestris nelsoni Ridgway, Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, 201. 



L[agopus] r[upestris] nelsoni Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, ed. 5, ii, 1903, 747 

 (Unalaska). — Hantzsch, Journ. fiir Orn., 1908, 367, in text; Can. Field Nat., 

 xlii, 1928, 14. 



Lagopus rupestris subsp. Friedmann, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., xxiv, 1934, 

 237 (Cape Danbeigh, Norton Sound; Alaska; bones). 



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



Lagopus mutus nelsoni Hartert, Vog. pal. Fauna, iii, 1921, 1871. — Oberholser, 

 Auk, xxxix, 1822, 247.— Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 34 (Unimak, 

 Unalaska, and Amaknak Islands). — Salomonsen, Moults and Sequence of 

 Plumages in the Rock Ptarmigan, 1939, 10 (spec). — Clark, Smiths. War Back- 

 ground Stud. No. 21, 1945, 78 (list birds Aleutians) . 



