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genial season, he inflates like a bladder; his voice sounds like a 
trumpet. Found on extensive plains, and is such delicious 
food that laws have been passed to preserve the breed.(1) The 
name of mae 
LaGgorus, 
Or Ptarmigan, is more particularly applied to those species which 
have a round or square tail; whose toes are feathered as well as the 
legs. ‘The most common become white in winter. 
Tetr. lagopus, L.; Lagopéde ordinaire,(2) Enl. 120 and 4945 
Brit. Zool. pl. M, 3, M, 4; Naum. Ist Ed. Supp. 61, f. 115, 
116. (The Ptarmigan or White Grous. ) Its summer plumage 
is fawn coloured, marked with small black lines.(3) From high 
mountains, where it remains during the winter, in holes which 
it forms under the snow. . 
Tetr. albus, Gm., called of Hudson’s Bay; 7". saliceti, Tem., 
Edw. 723 Frisch, 110, 111. (I'he White Ptarmigan.) From the 
whole north; is larger, and its summer plumage more red; its 
belly remains white.(4) 
There is a Ptarmigan in Scotland, however, which does not change 
its plumage in winter; it is, : 
Tetr. scoticus, Lath.; Poule de marais; Grous,'&c. Albin. 1, 
23, 24;9Brit. Zool. pl. M, 3; Vieill. Galer. 221. (The Red Ptar- 
vy migan.) Above, variegated with fawn colour, brown and black; 
' a deep red, striped with blackish beneath; legs cinereous, and 
but few feathers on the toes. , 
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Ganea or Arracrn.(5)—Prerocres, Tem. 
Those species which have a pointed tail and naked toes. The cir. 
cumference of their eyes only is naked, but it is not of a red colour; 
their thumb is very small. , 
Tetr. alchata, L.; Ganga, Enl. 105 and 106; Edw. 249.(6) 
The size of a Partridge; the plumage scalloped with fawn co- 
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(1) Add Tet. uwrophasianus, Bonap. II, pl. xxi, f. 2;—-Tet. obscurus, Bonap. II, 
pl. xviii. Am. Ed. 
(2) Lacorus—hare’s foot, hairy foot—is the ancient name of this bird. 
(3) In this summer livery it is the Tetr. rupestris, Lath. 
(4) The summer plumage forms the Zetr. Japponicus, Lath. 
(5) Attagen, the Greek name of a heavy bird, somewhat larger than the Par- 
tridge, with the plumage of a Woodcock, probably designated the Ganga. 
’ (6), Ganga is its Catalonian name; .2lchata, or rather Chata, its name among the 
Arabs. " 
