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LAGOPUS KUPESTKIS. 



(ROCK-PTARMIGAN.) 



The Rock-Grouse, Penn. Arct. Zool. ii. p. 312. no. 184 (1785). 



Tetrao rupestris, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 751 (1788, ex Penn.). 



Tetrao lagopus, Sabine, Trans. Linn. Soc. xii. p. 530 (1818). 



Tetrao islandorum, Faber, Prodr. island. Ornith. p. 6 (1822). 



Tetrao islandicus, C. L. Brehm, Lehrb. Eur. Vog. i. p. 440 (1823). 



Lagopus reinhardtii, C. L. Brehm, torn. cit. p. 986 (1823). 



Tetrao (Lagopus) mutus, Swainson, Faun. Bor.-Am. ii. p. 350 (1831, nee Leach). 



Tetrao (Lagopus) rupestris (Gm.), Swainson, torn. cit. p. 354 (1831). 



Lagopus americanus, Aud. Syn. p. 207 (1839). 



Lagopus islandicus, C. L. Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 264 (1855). 



Lagopus grosnlandicus, C. L. Brehm, torn. cit. p. 264 (1855). 



Lagopus rupestris (Gm.), Baird, B. of N. Am. p. 635 (1858). 



Bjupa Keri, Rjiipkarri, Icelandic. 



Figure notabiles. 

 Audubon, B. of Am. pi. 301 ; Elliot, Monogr. Tetr. xxiii, ; Sundevall, Sv. Fogl. pi.' 73. fig. 2. 



6 ad. capite, collo, et corpore supra, pectore et hypockondriis nigricanti-brunneis, rufescente brunneo trans- 

 fasciatis et vermiculatis : pileo et loris saturatioribus, nigricantibus : mento albo : caruncula, superciliari 

 nuda, coccinea : alis, pectore imo et abdomine albis : remigibus primariis rhacbibus fuscis : supra- 

 caudalibus sordide brumieis, nigro vermiculatis : subcaudalibus albo et nigricaute immixtis : cauda 

 nigra, vix albido apicata. 



2 ad. pileo, nucha et corpore supra nigricanti-brunneis, ochraceo transfasciatis et vermiculatis: uropygio 

 pallidiore : alis et cauda, ut in mare, sed tectricibus alarum intimis plumis dorso concoloribus immixtis : 

 mento ocbraceo, albido notato : corpore subtus sordide ocbraceo, nigricante fasciato et vermiculato : 

 abdomine centraliter albido, ocbraceo lavato : subcaudalibus ocbraceis nigro fasciatis. 



Adult Male in breeding -plumage (Kirkjuvogr, Iceland, 4th July, with female and eggs). Head, neck, back, 

 and upper parts generally, breast, and flanks blackish brown, barred and vermiculated with reddish 

 brown ; crown and lores nearly black ; entire chin white ; over the eye a tolerably conspicuous light 

 vermilion comb ; wings, abdomen, and lower part of the breast white, shafts of the primaries dark 

 brown ; under tail-coverts white, intermixed with blackish feathers, tipped with white ; tail blackish, 

 tipped with white ; the longer upper tail-coverts dull brown, narrowly vermiculated with blackish ; bill 

 dark brownish horn ; iris dark hazel. Total length 14-ij inches, culmen 10, from the nostril to the tip 

 of the bill 0-45, wing 7'82, tail 4"95, tarsus 1-2. 



Adult Female in breeding-plumage (Kirkjuvogr, 4th July). Crown, nape, back, and upper parts generally 



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