88 LEONHARD STEJNEGER. 



as albus. 1 It is therefore not correct when Gray (Handl. II p. 278) quotes 

 T. lagopus L. under mutus as have so many authors both before and 

 after. In 1769 Sgopoli (Ann. 1. Hist. Nat. p. 118) refers T. lagopus 

 to the South-European form : «rostro maculaque inter oculum et 

 rostrum atris» .... and about its summer-plumage which he describes 

 asavariety;' he remarks «hoc est altevum Lagopodis Genus in Hel- 

 vetiae montibas». Aldrov.L. 13, C. 21. Gmelin in 1 788 follows him herein 

 although fully aware of the fact that Montin in 1776 had distinctly dis- 

 posedof «Tetrao lagopus» forthe Willow Ptarmigan, naming the Skandi- 

 navian form of the T. mutus. 



l.a. Lagopus muta vulgaris (VieillJ Stejnegeb. 



1758. — Tetrao lagopus Lin., Syst. Nat. 10. ed. p. 159 (part.) 

 1769. — Tetrao lagopus Sgop., Ann. I. Hist. Nat. p. 118. 



1816. — Lagopus mutus Leagh, Gat. M. et B. Br. Mus. (p. 27). 



1817. — Lagopus vulgaris Vieill., N. Dict. d'Hist. Nat. XVII, p. 199 



(part.) 

 1817. — Lagopus mutans Forster, Synopt. Gat. Br. B. p. 19. 

 18:23. — Tetrao montanus Brehm, Lehrb. Eur. Vög. p. 448. 

 1835. — Tetrao rupestris Jenyns, Man. Brit. Vert. An. (171). 

 1837. — Lagopus cinereus Maegill., Hist. Brit. Birds I p. 187. 

 1860. — Lagopus alpinus minor Brehm, J. f. Orn. 1860, p. 393. 

 187 '4. — Lagopus alpinus var meridionalis Sundev., Öfr. Sv.Vet. Ac.Handl. 



1874, n. 3, p. 19. 

 1 874. — Lagopus mutus var. mutus Bidgw. in B. Br. and Ridgw. Birds 

 N. Amer. III. p. 456 (part.) 



The chief differences from the foregoing form, of which it is only a 

 subspecies, are indicated under the head of the latter. 



Having had no speeimens from Great Britain I am unable to say 

 with certainty, if the Ptarmigan, which resides in the Scotch mountains 

 is absolutely identical with that inhabiting Southern Europe. 



Hab : The Alps of Southern Europe, the Pyrenean Mountains, and 

 it is probably the same form which inhabits Scotland. 



1 This species will therefore have to stand as Lagopus lagopus (Linn.). 



