CHAPTER IX. 



The Dal-Ripa. Where found. Description. Plumage. Moulting. 

 Resembles the Scotch Grouse Resorts. Food. Feeds at Night. 

 Habits. "Trees." Roosts in the Snow. Its Lek. Breeding. 

 I 'a rental Affection. Enemies.- Naturalization in England. In 

 request for the Table. The Rip-Orre. 



? the Ripa, the well-known Scandinavian bird, be- 

 longing to the genus Tetrao, there are two species in 

 the Peninsula, viz., the Dal-Ripa, or Valley-Ripa, Sw. ; 

 Skov-Rype, Dal-Rype, Norweg. (Tetrao Lagopus, Linn. ; 

 Lagopus siilalpina, Nilss.), identical, as many suppose, 

 with the Willow Grouse (Lagopus Saliceti, Temm.) ; and 

 the Fjdll-JRipa, or Alpine Ripa, Sw. ; Fjeld-Rype, Skare- 

 Rype, Norw. (Tetrao Lagopus, Linn.; Lagopus alpina, 

 Nilss.), believed by some to be the common Ptarmigan 

 (Lay opus muftis, Auct.). 



Both the Dal-Ripa and the Fjiill-Ripa have from time 

 out of mind been known in Scandinavia as different 

 birds.* But Linnaeus, considering the Pjall-llipa to be 



"The Itipii," snys ISislioji I'lintoppidaii, " ix a peculiar 

 bird, and liclongs In (his, |i<>rli;ips, rather tlian any other country 



