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tump, in form of brown ftumps *, the firft rudiments of the coat~ 

 they affume in the warm feafon, when each feather is fingle, fuit- 

 able to the time. I ought to have obferved before, that the Spot- 

 ted Grous al^lb changes its fingle for double feathers at approach, 

 of winter, notwithftanding it undergoes no change of color. 



The Weight of this fpecies is twenty-four ounces : its Length Size.- 



fixteen inches and a quarter : Extent twenty-three. 



Thefe birds are met with round the globe, within and without Place. 



the arffitr circle, and as high as lat. 72, in the countries round Htidfons 

 Bay, and as low as Newfoundland; in Norway; perhaps in the 

 N. of the Ruffian dominions in Europe 'Y, and certainly in AJia all 

 over Sibiria, as far as Kamtfchatka, and in the iflands which lie be- 

 tween that country and America. Finally, they abound in Lapland 

 and Iceland; and I repeat, with certainty, that Norway hasfupplied me NoRWAYi. 



with this fpecies, which was fent to gne by the late Mr. Fleifcher, of 

 Copenhagen, along with the leffer kind, which proved to be the 

 fame with the White Grous of the Alps, and the Ptarmigan of the 

 Highlands of Scotland. Each of the varieties of the Norwegian birds 

 were in their fummer drefs ; and differed moft materially in fize as 

 well as color, the one being in all refpeftslike the yf;»enV^K kind : 

 the leiTer agreed in every point with that which I defcribe, N" 95, 

 vol. i. of my Britijh Zoology. 



The natives diftinguifh the kinds. The larger, which inhabits Norwegians 

 forefts, is ftyled by them Skorv Rype, or the Wood Grous ; the 

 lefTer, which lives in the mountains, is called Fi^ld Rype, or the 

 Mountain Grous J. They all burrow under the fnow ; and form 

 extenfive walks beneath. There they feed, efpecially in Lapland, oa 



• Drage's Voy. ii. 9. . 



f The feathers of the RuJ/ian kind, whichfoever it was, in early times, about 

 Fechora, were an article of commerce, and were fold for two pence of their money ■ 

 ^ei PooJ, or 38 lb. Purchas, iii, 536. 



X The Rujpan White Grous inhabits indifferently woods, mountains, plains, and 

 marflies. The Britijh fpecies or variety is in B.ujfta about half the ftze of the Sibirian 

 kind. . 



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