. The gallinaceous game birds of North America, including the partridges, grouse, ptarmigan, and wild turkeys .. . land birds has morefeathers tipped with grayish white, which is to be ex-pected, as the specimen was killed five days later in theyear than the Fort Chimo bird. If there is a distinctrace of the Willow Grouse in Newfoundland, then thespecific form is also found there, and it is very unlikelythat birds from the same island, so closely allied, wouldmaintain recognizable characters sufificient to separatethem, when it is notorious that individuals even of thesame flock vary so greatl
. The gallinaceous game birds of North America, including the partridges, grouse, ptarmigan, and wild turkeys .. . land birds has morefeathers tipped with grayish white, which is to be ex-pected, as the specimen was killed five days later in theyear than the Fort Chimo bird. If there is a distinctrace of the Willow Grouse in Newfoundland, then thespecific form is also found there, and it is very unlikelythat birds from the same island, so closely allied, wouldmaintain recognizable characters sufificient to separatethem, when it is notorious that individuals even of thesame flock vary so greatly from each other, both in colorand markings, that it is practically impossible to procuretwo exactly alike at any season of the year. When writ-ing my monograph of the Tetraoninae I had a numberof Newfoundland birds sent to me Ly the late ProfessorBaird, and I was unable then to discover any charactersufificient to separate them from other Willow Grouse,and before we can accept a new race from that islandas an established fact I think other and better charactersthan any yet known will have to be 33. Rock Ptarmigan. ROCK PTARMIGAN. A LONG the Alaskan coast, from the peninsula andBehring Sea, throughout the mountains of the in-terior, and across the Arctic regions of North Americato Hudson Bay, southern Labrador, and the island ofGreenland, the Rock Ptarmigan is a constant resident;frequenting low hills, or higher ranges in the summer,going down to the valleys during winter for shelter fromthe severity of the Northern climate at that season. Itis also found on the Barren Grounds (the height of landlying between the Anderson and Wilmot Horton or Mac-Farlane rivers and thence inward to the western sea-bankof Franklin Bay), but is not so plentiful there as theWillow Grouse. It is more a bird of the mountains, andprefers to remain on elevated summits throughout thesummer and amid precipitous slopes and rugged is a smaller bird than the Willow Grouse, and can
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