ORDER GALLINJE. 143 



b. La^ropus leucurus peninsul&ris Chapman. Kenai White-tailed Ptarmigan. 

 [304o.] 



Lagopus leucurus peninsularis Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., XVI, 

 1902, 236. (Kenai Mountains, Alaska.) 



Rakge. — Alpine summits from central Alaska, northern Yukon, and 

 northwestern Mackenzie south to Cook Inlet region, Kenai Peninsula, and 

 southern Yukon. 



Genus TYMPANUCHUS Gloger. 



Tympanuchus Glogbe, Hand- und Hilfsbuch, 1842, 396. Type, by 

 monotypy, Tetrao cupido Linnjeus. 



Tympanuchus americinus (Reichenbach). 



Range. — Central North America from southern central Canada 

 south to northern Texas and east (formerly) to Ohio. 



a. Tympanuchus americanus americanus (Reichenbach). Prairie Chicken. 

 [305.] 



Cupidonia americana Reichenbach, Syst. Avium, 1852, xxix. (Amer- 

 ica.) 



Range. — Southeastern Saskatchewan and southern Manitoba to eastern 

 Colorado, northeastern Texas, Arkansas, western Kentucky, and Indiana; 

 probably extinct east of Indiana but formerly reached southwestern Ontario, 

 Michigan, and northwestern Ohio. 



6. Tympanuchus americanus fittwateri Bendire. Attvater's Prairie Chicken. 

 [305a.] 



Tympanuchus attwateri Bendiee, Forest and Stream, XL, No. 20, May 

 18, 1893, 425. (Refugio Co., Texas.) 



Range. — Coast region of Texas and southwestern Louisiana. 



Tympanuchus cupido (Linn^us). Heath Hen. [306.] 



Tetrao cupido Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 160. ("Virginia" 

 [probably Pennsylvania or New York].) 



Range. — Island of Marthas Vineyard, Mass. Formerly southern 

 New England and parts of the Middle States. 



