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House, and forms a wolcome addition to the winter bill of fare at the 

 Hudson Bay posts. Definite data are lacking regarding the southern 

 limit of its breeding range on the west coast of Hudson Baj^ but on 

 the east coast it breeds as far south as James Bay, where Spread- 

 borough found it nesting at a point a short distance north of Fort 

 George. " 



Lagopus rupestris (Gmel.). Rock Ptarmigan. 



First described by Gmelin, who based the name on Pennant's ' Rock 

 Grouse ' from Hudson Bay.* We did not meet with the species, as its 

 summer home lies to the noi'th of the region visited. The people of 

 Fort Churchill say it occurs at that post regularly in winter, and 

 Clarke has recorded from there a pair in winter plumage. <■ Swainson 

 and Richardson, quoting Hutchins's manuscript, say that the species 

 reaches York Factory and Fort Severn in very severe winters.'^ J. C. 

 Ross says that the species left Port Bowen, Prince Regent Inlet, in 

 October and returned in March. ' Dr. Rae saw a rock ptarmigan with 

 a brood of young near CajDe Fullerton,-^ and specimens collected bj" 

 him at Repulse Bay are recorded in the British Museum Catalogue. 



Pedioecetes phasianellus (Linn.). Sharp-tailed Grouse. 



Two males in worn breeding plumage were taken at Norway House 

 June IH, and downy young at Oxford House early in July. We did 

 not again note the species until September li, when we saw a pair on 

 the upper Echimamish. It was common at Norway House September 

 16 to 19, and a specimen in fall plumage was taken at that point. The 

 tracks of a large flock were seen on the sandy shore at Duck Point, 

 Playgreen Lake, September 19. 



Edwards figured and described a specimen from Hudson Bay, call- 

 ing it the 'Long-Tailed Grous from Hudson's Bayj's' and this figure 

 and description formed the basis of Linnseus's description of Tetrao 

 phasianellus. Forster recorded it from Albany Fort and Severn 

 River,'' and Murray from Trout Lake.* J. B. Tyrrell saw it near 

 York Factory. J'' The catalogue of birds in the U. S. National Museum 

 collection contains the record of one taken at Moose Factory in 1881. 



"Macoun, Catalogue Canadian Birds, Part I, p. 206, 1900. 



6Arct. Zool,, II, p. 312, 1785. 



<-Auk, VII, p. 321, 1890. 



<* Fauna Boreali-Americana, II, p. 354, 1831. 



''Parry's Third Voyage, Appendix, p. 99, 1826. 



/ Narrative of an Expedition to the Shores of the Arctic Sea, p. 29, 1850. 



i/Nat. Hist., Ill, pi. 117, 1750. 



APhil. Trans., LXII, pp. 394, 425, 1772. 



'Edin. Ne^. Phil. Journ. (new ser.), IX, p. 224, 1859 



.^Ann. Kept. Can. Geol. Surv., 1896 (new ser.), IX, p. 165F (1897). 



