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vinaceous-rufous suffusion, spotted and blotched with clove-brown or dark 
claret-red, 1*65 x 1*18 (Bendire). Date, n. Lab., June 16. 
“In its general manners and mode of living it is said to resemble 
albus [-L. lagopus ], but does not retire so far into the wooded country 
in the winter” (B., B., and R.). 
302a. L. r. reinhardi ( Brehm ). Reinhardt’s Ptarmigan. Ad. 
summer. — Similar to corresponding plumage of L. r. rupestris but less 
heavily and regularly barred above, breast more finely barred. Ads. in fall 
(; preliminary winter) plumage. — Similar to corresponding plumage of L. r. 
rupestris but much grayer. Ads. in winter. — Not distinguishable from L. r. 
rupestris in winter. 
Range . — Northern extremity of Ungava, w. Cumberland Sound, and 
Greenland. 
“They prefer more open ground, and rarely straggle even into the 
skirts of the wooded tracts. The hilltops and barrens (hence often 
called the Barren Ground Bird) are their favorite resorts” (Turner). 
303. Lagopus welchi Brewst. Welch’s Ptarmigan. Ad. d” in breeding 
plumage. — Upperparts black, the head and neck barred with white and 
ochraceous-buff, the back and wing-coverts finely and irregularly marked 
with wavy lines of buffy and white; tail grayish fuscous, tipped with white; 
throat white, foreneck like hindneck, breast and sides like back; rest of 
underparts white. Ads. in fall {preliminary winter) plumage. — Not seen, 
but back and breast doubtless with finely vermiculated black and white 
feathers. Ad. $ breeding plumage. — Similar to corresponding plumage of 
rupestris. Ads. in winter. — Similar to winter ads. of rupestris. W., 7*25; B. 
from N., *35; depth of B. at N., ‘32. 
Remarks. — This is a much blacker and grayer bird than L. r. rupestris , 
and in this respect it appears most nearly to approach Rock Ptarmigan 
from Sitka {L. r. dixonif). (For comparison with rupestris see Stejneger, 
The Auk, 1885, 193.) 
Range. — Newfoundland. 
Nest, a slight hollow in the moss, lined with a few feathers. Eggs, 8, 
similar to those of Lagopus rupestris. Date, N. F., June 3 (Thayer Coll.). 
“According to Mr. Welch, these Ptarmigan are numerous in New- 
foundland, where they are strictly confined to the bleak sides and sum- 
mits of rocky hills and mountains of the interior” (Brewster). 
305. Tympanuchus amerieanus amerieaims {Reich.). Prairie 
Chicken. Ad. <?. — Upperparts barred with rufous and black and spotted 
with rufous; sides of neck with tufts generally composed of ten or more 
narrow, stiffened black feathers marked with buffy and rufous, their ends 
rounded, the skin beneath these tufts bare; tail rounded, fuscous, the inner 
feathers somewhat mottled with ochraceous-buff, tip white; throat buffy, 
breast and belly white, evenly barred with black. Ad. 9. — Similar, but neck 
tufts much smaller and tail barred with ochraceous-buff or rufous. L., 18’00; 
W., 9‘00; T., 4‘00; B. from N., ‘52. 
Range. — SE. Sask. and s. Man. to e. Colo., ne. Tex., Ark., w. Ky., and 
Ind.; probably extinct e. of Xnd.; but formerly reached sw. Ont., Mich., and 
nw. Ohio. 
Glen Ellyn, P. R., fairly plentiful locally. SE. Minn., P. R., much de- 
creased in numbers. 
Nest, on the ground. Eggs , 11-14, buffy olive, sometimes finely speckled 
with brownish, 1*70 x 1*25. Date, Jasper Co., Iowa., May 2. 
