a ptarmigan, Lagopus leucurus, native to the mountainous areas of the West and Northwest.
- 1852  The willow and white-tailed ptarmigans bear the designation of Kasbah or Kampbah, in the Slave or Chepewyan tongue.
- 1950  Above the last clumps of bushes, in the open rocky meadows, are the flocks of white-tailed ptarmigan and the little larks.
- 1959  White-tailed Ptarmigan [is also called] Rock ptarmigan (B.C.).