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and the eyes encircled with two large red 

 eye-brows, like the grouse, but twice as 

 large. The plumage of the hen is much the 

 same as that of the hen grouse, but some- 

 thing more white. The black : cock weighs 

 from thirty to near forty ounces. 



THE PTARMIGAN, OR TARMIGAN, 



Is in shape and form a species of -grouse, 

 and only differs a little in its size and colour. 

 The colour is mottled black and white, 

 something like the grey feather in the mal- 

 lard ; the eyes are encircled with red eye- 

 brows, but not so large nor so pinked as 

 that of the grouse; the legs clothed with 

 feathers to the very toes ; and the bill short, 

 arched, and of a dark greyish colour. She 

 makes her nest on the top of the highest and 

 barest part of the mountains, among the 

 small loose stones, which she fills up with 

 moss, and lays seven or eight eggs. The 

 time of shooting them the same as grouse and 

 black-game. They fly in packs like grouse, 



