The Key to Scientific Names
Edited by James A. Jobling
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- Keron
(Phasianidae; syn. Lagopus † Rock Ptarmigan L. mutum) Lapp/Saami (Finnish) name Keron for the ptarmigan; "2457. e. KERON, Montin. Lagopus, V. 1816. Attagen, Kaup, 1829? Reich. S. A. t. 28. f. 9837. mutus, Leach ... 9838. rupestris, Gm. ... 9839. hemileucurus, Gould ... 9840. leucurus, Sw." (G. Gray 1870); "Keron "Montin" GRAY, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 278. (Type, as designated by Ogilvie-Grant, Tetrao mutus Montin [Keron Montin, Physiogr. Salsk. Handl., i, 1776, 155, is not a systematic but a vernacular name.])" (Ridgway and Friedmann, 1941, Birds North and Middle America, Pt. IX, p. 90).
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