

144 TETRAONID^E. 



Lagopus mutus. PTARMIGAN. 



Tetrao mutus, Montin, Phys. Salsk. Handl. p. 155 



(1770). 

 Tetrao Lagopus, Linnaus, S. N. i. p. 274 (1776) . 



Lagopus cinereus, Macg. i. p. 187. 



Tetrao lagopus, Naum. vi. p. 401 ; Hewitson, p. 280 ; Hart- 



ing/p. 39. 



Lagopus albus, Gray, p. 132. 



Lagopus vulgaris, Yarr. ed. 2, ii. p. 359 ; id. ed. 3, ii. p. 372. 

 Lagopus mutus, Saunders, iii. p. 83 ; Gould, iv. pis. 8-10 ; 



Dresser, vii. p. 157. 

 The Ptarmigan, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 322. 

 Mutus = dumb, mute. 



Common on the highest mountain-tops of Scotland; found 

 in similar districts throughout Europe and Central Asia. 



Lagopus SCOtiCTlS. BED GROUSE. 

 Tetrao scoticus, Latham, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 641 (1790) . 



Lagopus scoticus, Macg. i. p. 169 ; Gray, p. 131 ; Yarr, 

 ed. 2, ii. p. 351 ; id. ed. 3, ii. p. 364 ; Saunders, iii. p. 73 ; 

 Gould, iv. pi. 7; Dresser, vii. p. 165. 



Tetrao scoticus, Hewitson, p. 279 ; Harting, p. 39. 



The Red Grouse, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 315. 



Scoticus = of Scotland, to which it was supposed to be peculiar. 



On moorlands throughout the greater part of the British 

 Islands, but not south of Derbyshire in England. It does 

 not occur outside the British Isles, but is represented on 

 the continent by the closely allied form Lagopus albus. 



[Lagopus rupestris. ROCK-PTAXMI&AN. 



Tetrao rupestris, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 751 

 (1788). 



Lagopus rupestris, Dresser, vii. p. 175. 



Rupestris = frequenting rocks, rupes. 



One is said to have occurred in Sutherlandshire (Selby, 



