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Remarks (Both this species)

Both this species and its subspecies alleni may be distinguished from our other Ptarmigans by their more rufous color and larger bills. Range." Northern portions of the northern hemisphere, south in winter; in America to Sitka, Alaska, the British Provinces, and occasionally within the northern border of the United States" (Bendire). Nest, on the ground. Eggs, seven to eleven, varying from cream-buff to rufous, heavily spotted and blotched with blackish, 1.75 x 1.20. This abundant and characteristic arctic bird does not nest south of central Labrador, but migrates southward in winter to the St. Lawrence, and has once been taken in northern New York and once in