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Lagopus rupestris reinhardi (Brelini). 

 Reinhardt's Ptarmigan. 



Common permanent resident in the extreme north. 



Bigelow says that it is probably this race that is found north of 

 Okkak. They migrate back and forth across Davis Strait in spring 

 and fall. 



Dr. Grenfell told us that they gather at Cape Chidley in multitudes in 

 the spring just before their annual migration across the Hudson Straits. 

 They are killed by the Moravians and Eskimos in great numbers and 

 barrelled. He illustrated the abundance of this bird in winter as well 

 as its tameness and the skill of the Eskimos with the whip by the 

 following anecdote. During a three-day sledge trip made in winter 

 by the Rev. S. M. Stewart from the George River to Fort Chimo his 

 Eskimo driver succeeded in killing 500 ptarmigan by cutting off their 

 heads with his long whip. 



Pedioecetes phasianellus (Linn.). 

 Sharp-tailed Grouse. 



Uncommon permanent resident in southwestern Labrador. 



Low says that it has been killed in winter at .Great Whale River, 

 and states that its northern limit in Labrador is at lat. 57°. He took 

 a set of eggs on May 20, 1889, at Fort George, on James Bay. Spread- 

 borough states that it is said to be common at Fort George in winter, 

 and one was shot on June 18, 1896, a short distance south of Fort 

 George, James Bay. Fleming ('06) records, that according to Bishop 

 Newnham, there is a fall migration of these birds from the northeast, 

 to be observed at Moose Factory, "usually when the marsh hay is 

 being gathered." 



Ectopistes migratorius (Linn.). 



Passenger Pigeon. 



Formerly very rare, now extirpated. 



Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway say of this bird: "On the coast of 

 Hudson's Bay it reaches no farther than the 58th parallel, and only in 



