THE PTARMIGAN-GROUSE. 185 



Your hour is gone by, 



To the forest I fly, 

 When once my clarion notes are o'er, 

 The wariest sportsman sees me no more. 



You must look for me 



On my mountain tree, 

 If ever the bonny wood-grouse you would see. 



ORDER GALLINJE. 



The Ptarmigan-Grouse. 



Tetrao Lagopus. 



THE greater part of the gallinaceous tribes are 

 inhabitants of warm or mild climates, and enjoy 

 all the advantages of serene skies and fertile 

 soils, rich in the productions of nature, abundantly 

 supplying all their wants. There are, however, 

 some species to whom the cold and cheerless 

 wastes of the north are allotted : there they dwell, 

 in the midst of snow-covered mountains, and 

 wild scenes of desolate grandeur, sharing the do- 

 minions of these frozen regions with the few 

 hardy animals who are, like themselves, fitted to 

 endure the intensity of cold. Of all the species 

 of gallinse, the ptarmigan is the only one which 

 is capable of braving the severity of these icy 



