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1909, 229 (Kenai Mountains, Bear Creek, Cook Inlet, Alaska).— Riley. Can. 

 Alpine Journ., 1912, 60, in text (crit.).— Bent, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 162, 1932, 

 234 (habits, etc.).— Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 35.— Heix- 

 MAYER and CoNOVER, Cat. Birds Amer., i, No. 1, 1942, 209 (syn. ; distr.). 



LAGOPUS LEUCURUS SAXATILIS Cowan 



Vancouver Ptarmigan 



Adults in summer plumage. — Said to be like those of the typical race 

 but larger, with longer tail and larger, more decurved bill; head and 

 neck black and white without or almost without, buffy wash, shafts of 

 primaries black. *^ 



Adult male in autumn plumage. — Like that of the nominate race but 

 larger, with longer bill and tail, buffy areas of back and flanks less 

 grayish, more brownish, and with little or no buflfy on head and neck. 



Adult female in autumn plumage. — Like that of the nominate race 

 but with the ground color of the upperparts and sides of the breast more 

 brownish, less grayish. 



Juvenal. — Differs from that of the typical race in having the head 

 and neck barred black and white, and in the longer more decurved bills. 



Downy young. — Apparently not known. 



Adult male.— Wing 178-187 (181); tail 100-106 (104); exposed 

 culmen 16-18 (17.4); nostril to tip 10.5-11 (10.9); depth of bill 

 8-9 (8.7 mm.). "2 



Adult female. — Wing 172, exposed culmen 18, nostril to tip 11.2; depth 

 of bill 7.6 mm.^3 



Range. — Resident in the alpine peaks of Vancouver Island (Mount 

 Arrowsmith, Crown Mountain, Upper Campbell Lake, Cowichan Lake, 

 mountains south of Alberni ; mountains north of Great Central Lake. 



Type locality. — Mount Arrowsmith, Vancouver Island, 6,000 feet. 



Lag opus leucurus Macoun, Cat. Can. Birds, 1900, 209, part (breeding. Mount 

 Arrowsmith, Vancouver). — Macoun and Macoun, Cat. Can. Birds, ed. 2, 1909, 

 228, part (breeding, 6,000 feet. Mount Arrowsmith, Vancouver). 



Lagopus leucurus leucurtis Swarth, Univ. California Publ. Zool., x, 1912, 23 

 (Vancouver Island: all the higher peaks). — Brooks and Swarth, Pacific 

 Coast Avif., No. 17, 1925, 52 part (Vancouver Island, Mount Arrowsmith; 

 mountains south of Alberni, and mountains north of Great Central Lake). — 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, ed. 4, 1931, 85, part. — Bent, 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 162, 1932, 232 (habits; distr.; Mount Arrowsmith).— 

 Taverner, Birds Canada, 1934, 160, in text, part. — Peters, Check-list Birds of 

 World, ii, 1934, 35, part. 



Lagopus leucurus saxatilis Cowan, Condor, xli, 1939, 82 (Mount Arrowsmith, 

 Vancouver; descr. ; distr.; crit.). — Heixmayr and Conover, Cat. Birds Amer., 

 i. No. 1, 1942, 210 (syn.; distr.). 



" All descriptions ex Cowan, Condor, xli, 1939, 82. 

 '" Five specimens, all measurements ex Cowan. 

 " One specimen, ex Cowan. 



