St-pleuiuer, 1H(>4.] 



Winter Oamr. 



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is found an occasional note of tlio brinj^in^- In ])y Kudolpli of a fat 

 rabbit, in its winter garb, all A\liite excoi)t tlic tips of its ears, "jet 

 black;" or of as many as eight or ten siiow-parti'idges. Flocks of 

 these birds, in their winter dress, snow white, exce})t their tail-feath- 

 ers, were found in numbers on the sea-shore, after each fall f»f snow. 

 In the de])th of the winter they are scarcely distinguishable from the 

 snow at a distance of 10 feet. 



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PTARMIGAN ( Tetfuo Lagopm). 



