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GA>IE BI IDS. 



Winter plumage. Summer plumage. 



THB PTABMIOAN, WHITE OROTT8B, OB WHITB OAUF.. 



cold. It is likewise abundant in the northern parts of America, 

 including the islands to the south and west of Baffin's Bay. It is 

 common on the Grampian Hills, where the granite rocks, and slatj 

 masses afford concealment. It is abundant on the highest sum- 

 mits of the highest hills in the north of Scotland and the adjacent 

 islands, but only on the most elevated parts of the highest moun- 

 tains. They are of rare occurrence in Ireland, but I have 

 seen some specimens that have been shot there, one by Mr. Dar- 

 ley, on the Three-rock Mountain, county Dublin, and another 

 from the north of Ireland, "both preserved by Mr. Glennon, of 

 Suffolk-street. 



