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Range. — Arctic regions. In America breeds from northern Alaska, 

 northern Banks Land, and central Greenland south to eastern Aleutian Islands, 

 central Mackenzie (in the mountains to west central Alberta), central Kee- 

 watin, James Bay, and southern Ungava; south in winter to northern British 

 Columbia, Saskatchewan Valley, Minnesota, Ontario, and Quebec; accidental 

 in Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, Maine, and Massachusetts. 



b. Lagopus lagopus illeiii Stejnegeb. Allen's Ptarmigan. [301a.] 



Lagopus alba alleni Stejnegeb, Auk, I, Oct., 1884, 369. (Newfound- 

 land.) 



Range. — Newfoundland. 



<fi Lagopus lagopus alexfindrse Grinnell. Alexander's Ptarmigan. [3016.] 



Lagopus alexandrce Grinnell, Univ. Calif. Pub. Zool., V, No. 2, Feb. 



V 



18, 1909, 204. (Mountain at Bear Bay, on Peril Strait, Baranof 

 Island, Alaska.) 



Range. — Baranof and adjacent islands west to Shumagin Islands. 



Lagopus rupestris (Gmelin). 

 Range. — Northern North America and Greenland. 



a. Lagopus rupestris rupestris (Gmelin). Rock Ptarmigan. [302.] 



Tetrao rupestris Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 751. (Hudson Bay.) 



RanGb. — Arctic America. Breeds from Melville Island to MelviUe Penin- 

 sula and south on the Barren Grounds from Alaska to Ungava; also on alpine 

 summits south to central Yukon; south in winter to southern Mackenzie and 

 southern Ungava. 



b. Lagopus rupestris reinhardi (Brehm). Beinhardt's Ptarmigan. [302a.] 



Tetrao reinhardi Brehm, Lehrbuch Eur. Vogel, II, 1824, 986. (Green- 

 land.) 

 Range.— Northern extremity of Ungava, western Cumberland Sound, and 

 Greenland. 



c. Lagopus rupestris nelsoni Stejneger. Nelson's Ptarmigan. [3026.] 



Lagopus rupestris nelsoni Stejneger, Auk, I, July, 1884, 226. (Un- 

 alaska, Alaska.) 

 Range. — Unalaska, Akutan, and Unimak islands, Aleutian Islands. 



d. Lagopus rupestris atkhensis Turner. Turner's Ptarmigan. [302c.] 



Lagopus mutus atkhensis Turner, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, Aug. 5, 1882, 

 227, 230. (Atka Island, Alaska.) 

 Range. — Atka, one of Aleutian Islands, Alaska. 



