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lives with a stick and a loop. In summer 

 they are good eating ; but in winter they taste 

 strongly of the pine spruce, upon which they 

 feed during that season, eating berries in sum- 

 mer. They live in pine woods, their nests 

 are on the ground ; they generally lay but five 

 esres. 



Tetrao, i6. Lagopus, 274. 4. White Grous. Faun. 

 Am. Sept. 10. Ptarmigan. Br. Zool. La- 

 gopede de la Baye de Hudson. Buffon Ois- 

 eaux II. p. 276. Edw. t. ']2. 



Severn River, N° i — 4. Willow-partridges. 



The Hudson's Bay ptarmigan has been separated 

 from the European in the British Zoology, and 

 afterwards by M. de Buffon : however, I must 

 own, I cannot yet find the differences which 

 they assign to these species. They contend that 

 the Hudson's Bay bird figured by Edwards is 

 twice as big as the European ptarmigan ; Mr. 

 Edwards, I think, does not intimate this, 

 when he says, the bird is of a middle size, 

 between partridge and pheasant ; he on the 

 contrary supposes them to be the same species. 

 The British Zoology, after Willoughby, says, 

 the ptarmigan's length is 13^ inches. The 

 account from Severn River says it is 16 inches. 

 The breadth in the British Zoology is said to 

 be 23 inches. The breadth in the Hudson's 

 Bay birds, according to the accounts from Se- 

 vern River, is 23 inches. Willoughby's ptar- 

 migan weighed 14 ounces ; that in the British 



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