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     and neek barred, and haek marked with numerous line wavy lines of gray 
     
     and white. or hutly; eeutral tail-feathers like the haek, outer ones t'useous, 
     
     generally tipped with white; l!l’t':l.\l and sides like the head and ueek; belly 
     
     white. Ad. 9 in summer. 7.\lm\'e Idaek, harred with oehraeeous-luitl' and 
     
     margined with grayish: middle tail—leathers the same. outer ones as in the 
     
     male; middle of the belly white, rest of the under parts like the hack, hut 
     
     with more oehraeeous-luill'. ll't'uttr1r!III/nongilfirex Izlrlel', outer tail—feathers 
     
     : depth 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     as in summer. rest of the plumage white. “1,7150; B. from N.. 
     
     of B. at N. x '. 
     
    

    
     Hung/cui‘uhetie Ameriea in general. southeastward to the Gulf of St. 
     
     Lawrence (Antieostii, exeept the northern extremity of the peninsula of 
     
     Labrador, and region thenee northward7 Greenland and Aleutian Islands” 
     
     (Bendire). 
     
    

    
     Nest, usually" plaeed among the dwarf hrush or sedge-covered patehes of 
     
     the tundras fill/gm. six to ten. pale eream or yellowish hutl'. sometimes with 
     
     a \‘iuaceous—rutous sutl'usion. spotted and blotehed with elove—hruwn or dark 
     
     elaret~red7 1'65 x 1'1: i Bendire l. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     “ In its general manners and mode of living it is said to resemble 
     
     (llbllS [: L. Inge/111s]. but does not retire so far into the wooded coun- 
     
     try in the winter" (15., 15., and R.). 
     
    
   
   
    
     3023.. L. r. reinhardti (BI-(271ml. GREENLAND PTAiunoAN. “Sum— 
     
     mer male—Similar to eorresrmnding stage of 1.. ru/uxlm'x, but less regu— 
     
     larly and coarsely harred ahove. SHHWIN’)"fiVll/IlK—Allflvt‘ ehietly hlaek, this 
     
     varied irregularly with pale grayish huff. mostly in form of" borders to the 
     
     feathers and spots alont.r their edges. or oeeasionally imperfeet hm’s. these lat— 
     
     ter most distinct on wine's, where the two colors are in altout equal propor— 
     
     tion: lower parts light grayish hutl'. everywhere coarsely harred with black" 
     
     (Ititigm. ’ ' 
     
    

    
     1i’(1n_rye.—Northern parts of Lahrador northward to Greenland. 
     
    
   
   
    
     “ They prefer more open ground. and rarely straggle even into the 
     
     skirts of the wooded traets. The hilltops and harrons (hence often 
     
     called the Barren Ground Ilird) are their favorite resorts" (Turner). 
     
    
   
   
    
     303- Lagopus welchi Bl'flt‘xf. Witten’s PTARMIGAN. “11]. a 7'11, 
     
     summonwlfpper parts lvlaelt, the head and neek harred with white and oehrn— 
     
     eeous—hutl. the haek and \\'inx_r»eoeerts finely and irregularly marked with 
     
     wavy lines of hutl'y and white: tail grayish fuseous. the middle feathers 
     
     tipped with white: throat white, t‘oreneek like the, hind neek. breast and 
     
     sides like. the hat-k: rest of the under parts white. 9 .ml‘pper parts hlaek, 
     
     finely and irregularly luarred with rwhraeer'uls-lrutl'.(77'!/'1/i.-}1.:iml white: cen- 
     
     tral tail»f“,atln-rs like the, l|:l('l{. others fuse-wits; t‘oreneek. hr-ast. and sides 
     
     like the hind neek; helly white. ll'z’uttr [dunno/4, White. tail fuseuus. the 
     
     (‘mztml feathers tipped with white: [tn-«x black. \V., 7-23: ll. from N., '3F; 
     
     depth of B. at X. '32. 
     
    

    
     [I’L’III(I7'Z‘S.~Tlllfi speeies with l. rupesfri's is to he distinguished from 
     
     Lagoflus lagopus by the oehl‘aeeous—luttl' inst *ad of rufous markings, the fine