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LAGOPUS ALBITS. 



(WILLOW-PTARMIGAN.) 



The White Partridge, Edwards, Nat. Hist. Birds, pi. 72 (1748). 



Tetrao lagopus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 275, no. 4 (1766, ex Edw.). 



Lagopede de la Baye d'Hudson, Buff. Hist. Ois. ii. p. 310 (1772). 



Tetrao alius, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 750 (1788). 



Tetrao lapponicus, Gm. torn. cit. p. 751. 



Tetrao cachinnans, Retzius, Faun. Sv. p. 210 (1800). 



Tetrao saliceti, Temm. Man. d'Orn. p. 295 (1815). 



Lagopus alius, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xvii. p. 203 (1817). 



Tetrao sulalpinus, Nilsson, Orn. Sv. i. p. 307 (1817). 



Tetrao (Lagopus) saliceti (Temm.), Swainson, Faun. Bor. Am. ii. p. 351 (1831). 



Lagopus sulalpina, Nilsson, Skand. Faun. ii. p. 88 (1835). 



Tetrao Irachydactylus, Temm. Man. d'Orn. iv. p. 328 (1840). 



Lirype, Norwegian ; Dalripa, Swedish ; Metsdkana, BieJcko, Finnish ; KoropdtJca, Russian. 



Figure notaliles. 



Edwards, I. c. ; D'Aubenton, PI. Enl. 129 ; Werner, Atlas, Gallinaces, pi. 8 ; Naumann, 

 Vog. Deutschl. pi. 159; Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 255; Elliot, Monogr. Tetr. pis. 17, 18; 

 Audubon, pi. 299. 



d ad. ptil. cest. capite et collo saturate runs, nigro maculatis : dorso et scapularibus runs, nigricante fasciatis 

 et vermiculatis : alis albis : uropygio cum supracaudalibus dorso concoloribus : gula, gutture, pectore 

 et hypochondriis runs, vix nigricante guttatis et vermiculatis : abdomine centrali, tibiis et tarsi plumis 

 albis : subcaudalibus rufis, nigro fasciatis et albido immixtis : supra oculos macula nuda, papillosa 

 coccinea. 



$ ad. ptil. test, mari similis sed minor, collo et pectore sordidioribus et nigro conspicue fasciatis, mento 

 ochrascenti-flavo. 



Adult Male in spring plumage (Finland, May). Head, neck, breast, upper part of flanks, and back ricb dark 

 red, most uniform and ricb in colour on the fore part of the neck and breast ; feathers on the crown 

 with black centres, those on the neck, breast, and back more or less vermiculated with black, those on 

 the back being most closely marked, and many being also narrowly terminated with white ; rump and 

 upper tail-coverts similar to the back, but intermixed with a few white feathers ; tail (excepting the 

 two central rectrices, which are white) blackish, tipped with white, excepting on the outer feathers ; 

 wings and underparts, excepting as above stated, pure white ; shafts of most of the primaries brownish 

 towards the tip ; feathers covering the nostrils, a small space on the chin at the base of the under 

 mandible, and region round and behind the eye white, lower part of the chin almost black ; above the 



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