B. Tail-feathers entirely pure white.
3. L. leucurus. Winter plumage wholly white. Hab. Alpine summits of the Western mountain-ranges, from Colorado to Oregon and Washington, and north into British America.
PLATE LXII.
- 1. Lagopus albus. ♂ Summer. Alaska, 21462.
- 2. Lagopus albus. ♀ Summer. Labrador, 43468.
- 3. Lagopus albus. ♂ Winter.
- 4. Lagopus rupestris. ♂ Winter. 30370.
- 5. Lagopus rupestris. ♀ Summer. Labrador, 44582.
- 6. Lagopus leucurus. ♂ Summer. Colorado, 16002.
Lagopus albus, Aud.
WILLOW GROUSE; WHITE PTARMIGAN.
Tetrao albus, Gmelin, I, 1788, 750 (Hudson’s Bay).—Lath. Ind. Orn. II, 639. Lagopus albus, Aud. Syn. 1839, 207.—Ib. Birds Amer. V, 1842, 114, pl. ccxcix.—Bonap. Am. Phil. III, new ser. p. 393, sp. 313.—Gray, Gen. B. III.—Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 633.—Boie, Isis, 1822, 558.—Gray, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. III, 47, 1844.—Bonap. Geog. & Comp. List. B. p. 44, No. 288.—Elliot, Monog. Tetraon. pl.—Coues, P. A. N. S. 1861, 227.—Gray, Cat. Brit. Mus. V, 1867, 80.—Dall & Bannister, Tr. Chicago Ac. I, 1869, 287.—Finsch, Abh. Nat. III, 1872, 62 (Alaska). Tetrao (Lagopus) albus, Nuttall, Man. I, (2d ed.,) 1840, 816. ? Tetrao lagopus, Forster, Phil. Trans. LXII, 1772, 390. Tetrao saliceti, Sabine, App. Franklin’s Narr. 681.—Rich. App. Parry’s 2d Voyage, 347.—Aud. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 528, pl. cxci.—Sab. App. Frank. Narr. p. 681. Tetrao (Lagopus) saliceti, Swainson, F. Bor. Am. II, 1831, 351.—Lagopus s. Gould. B. Eur. pl. White Grouse, Pennant. Tetrao lapponicus, Gmel. Syst. Nat. I, 751, sp. 25.—Lath. Ind. Orn. II, 640, sp. 12. Tetrao rehusak, Temm. Pig. et Gall. III, 225. Lagopus subalpinus, Nils. Orn. Suec. I, 307, sp. 139. Lagopus brachydactylus, Temm. Man. Orn. III, 328.—Gould, B. Eur. pl. cclvi.—Gray, Gen. B. III.—Bonap. Consp. List. 44, No. 300.
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