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genial season, he inflates like a bladder; his voice sounds like a 

 trumpet. Found on extensive plains, and is such delicious 

 food that laws have been passed to preserve the breed. (1) The 

 name of 



Lagopus, 



Or Ptarmigan, is more particularly applied to those species which 

 have a round or square tail; whose toes are feathered as well as the 

 legs. The most common become white in winter. 



Tttr. lagopus, L. j Lagopcde ordinaire,{2) Enl. 120 and 494; 

 Brit. Zool. pi. M, 3, M, 4; Naum. 1st Ed. Supp. 61, f. 115, 

 116. (The Ptarmigan or White Grous.) Its summer plumage 

 is fawn coloured, marked with small black lines.(3) From high 

 mountains, where it remains during the winter, in holes which 

 it forms under the snow. 



Tetr. albus, Gm., called of Hudson's Bay; T. saliceti, Tern., 



Edw. 72;Frisch, 110, 111. (The White Ptarmigan.) From the 



whole north; is larger, and its summer plumage more red; its 



belly remains white.(4) 



There is a Ptarmigan in Scotland, however, which does not change 



its plumage in winter; it is, 



Tetr. scoticus, Lath.; Poule de marais; Grous, 8cc. Albin. 1, 

 23, 24; Brit. Zool. pi. M, 3; Vieill. Galer. 221. (The Red Ptar- 

 migan.) Above, variegated with fawn colour, brown and black; 

 a deep red, striped with blackish beneath; legs cinereous, and 

 but few feathers on the toes. 

 We may separate by the name of 



Ganga or Attagen.(5) PtSrocles, Tem. 



Those species which have a pointed tail and naked toes. The cir- 

 cumference of their eyes only is naked, but it is not of a red colour; 

 their thumb is very small. 



Tetr. alchata, L.; Ganga, Enl. 105 and 106; Edw. 249.(6) 

 The size of a Partridge; the plumage scalloped with fawn co- 



ll) Add Tet. urophasianus, Bonap. Ill, pi. xxi, f. 2; Tet. obscurus, Bonap. Ill, 

 pi. xvlii. Am. Ed. 



(2) Lagopus hare's foot, hairy foot is the ancient name of this bird. 



(3) In this summer livery it is the Tetr. rupestris. Lath. 



(4) The summer plumage forms the Tetr. lapponicus, Lath. 



(5) Attagen, the Greek name of a heavy bird, somewhat larger than the Par- 

 tridge, with the plumage of a Woodcock, probably designated the Ganga. 



(6) Ganga is its Catalonian name; Alchata, or rather Chata, its name among the 

 Arabs. 



