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Tetrao leucurus Audubon, Orn. Biogr., v, 1839, 200, pi. 418, fig. 2. 



Lagopus leucurus Swainson, in Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Amer., ii, 

 1831 (1832), pi. 63, part.— Bonaparte, Geogr. and Comp. List, 1838, 44 part.— 

 Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 208, part; Birds Amer., 8vo ed., v, 1842, 125, part, 

 pi. 302.— Baird, Cat. North Amer. Birds, 18S9, No. 469, part ; ? in Cooper, Orn. 

 California, Land Birds, 1870, 542, part (British Columbia) .—Blakiston, Ibis, 

 1863, 128, part (Rocky Mountains north to Arctic Circle) .—Elliot, Monogr. 

 Tetraonidae, 1865, pi. 25 and text, part.— Coues, Check List North Amer. 

 Birds, 1874, No. 388, part; ed. 2, 1882, No. 570, part; Birds Northwest, 1874, 

 425, part (Rocky Mountains from Arctic Ocean; British Columbia?). — Baird, 

 Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. North Amer. Birds, iii, 1874, 464, part, pi. 62, 

 fig. 6. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, 1886, No. 304, rev. ed., 

 1889, No. 304, part (Liard River; British Columbia); ed. 2, 1895, No. 304.— 

 Bendire, Life Hist. North Amer. Birds, i, 1892, 83, part.— Rhoads, Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1893, 38, part (Kicking Horse Pass, Hector, and near 

 Clinton, British Columbia). — Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxii, 1893, 

 52, part (British Columbia; Fort Halkett) .— Macoun, Cat. Birds, pt. 1, 1900, 209, 

 part (Mackenzie River to La Pierre House; summits of most mountains in main- 

 land of British Columbia). — Bailey, Handb. Birds Western United States, 1902, 

 129, part (descr. ; distr.).— Judd, U. S. Biol. Surv. Bull. 24, 1905, 47, 48, 

 part (geogr. range, food, etc). — Preble, North Amer. Fauna, No. 27, 1908, 

 348 (Liard River; Fort Simpson; Fort Halkett; La Pierre House; etc.).- — 

 Macoun and Macoun, Cat. Can. Birds, ed. 2, 1909, 228, part.— ^Racey, Auk, 

 xliii, 1926, 321 (between Red Mountain and Mount Whistler, British Colum- 

 bia). — Taverner, Birds Western Canada, 1926, 170 (fig.; descr.; habits; distr.; 

 w. Canada); Birds Canada, 1934, 159 in text (distr.; char.); Water Birds, 

 1939, 170, part. — Laing and Taverner, Ann. Rep. Nat. Mus. Canada for 1927 

 (1929), 76 (Chitina River region, Alaska) .—Stenhouse, Scottish Nat., 1930, 

 81 (type spec; Roy. Scottish Mus.). 



L[agopus] leucurus Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1884, 588, part. — Ridg- 

 way, Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, 202, part. — Reichenow, Die Vogel, i, 

 1913, 323. 



[Lagopus] leucurus Reichenbach, Synop. Aves, iii, Gallinaceae, 1848, pi. 213b, 

 fig. 1879.— Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, 1872, 236, part.— Sharpe, Hand- 

 list, i, 1899, 19, part. 



Lagopus leucura Stejneger, Zeitschr. ges. Orn., i, 1884, 92, part. 



Lagopus leucurus leucurus American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, ed. 3, 

 1910, 142, part; ed. 4, 1931, 85, part— Riley, Can. Alpine Journ., 1912, 59 

 (Henry House, at Moose Pass branch of Smoky River, Alberta; habits; 

 crit.).— Wheeler, Auk, xxix, 1912, 202 (w. of Conghia Ti, n. of Great Slave 

 Lake, Mackenzie, June 4). — Brooks, Auk, xxxiv, 1917, 37 (Chilliwack, British 

 Columbia, on higher Eastern Cascade range). — Swarth, Univ. California Publ. 

 Zool., xxiv, 1922, 208 (mountains above Doch-da-on Creek, Stikine River, s. 

 Alaska ; food ; etc. ) ; Univ. California Publ. Zool., xxx, 1926, 103 ( Atlin region, 

 British Columbia, plum.). — Taverner, Birds, Western Canada, 1926, 171, in text 

 (distr. in w. Canada) ; Birds Canada, 1934, 160, in text part. — Bent, U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. Bull., 162, 1932, 232 (habits; distr.).— Peters, Check-list Birds of 

 World, ii, 1934, 35, part (range, except Vancouver Island). — Cowan, Condor, 

 xli, 1939, 82 in text (crit.).— Hellmayr and Conover, Cat. Birds Amer., i. 

 No. 1, 1942, 209 (syn.; distr.). 



Lagopus l[eucurus] leucurus Groebbels, Der Vogel, i, 1932, 184 (alt. distr.) ; 739 

 in text (limiting distr. factors). 



