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WHITE PTARMIGAN. 
(Lagopus albus.) 
La. corpore (estate albo Jiihoque vario ; hyeme toto albo ; rectri- 
cibus atris opice albis ; duabus intermediis totis albis. 
Ptarmigan with the body in summer varied with white and 
fulvous ; in the winter totally white ; the tail-feathers dark- 
coloured, with white tips ; the two middle feathers entirely 
white. 
Tetrao albus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 570. 23. — Lath.Ind. Orn.2, 
63Q. 10. 
Tetrao saliceti. Tejnm. Gall. Ind, 709. (winter plumage.) 
Tetrao subalpinus. Nilss. Orn. Suec. 307 ? 
Lagopede de la bale d’Hudson. Buff. Ois. 2. 2/6. 
Tetras des saules, ou muet. — Temm. Pig. et Gall. Z.p. 208. pi. 
l\.f. 1, 2, 3. Temm. Man. d'Omi. 2Q5. (winter plumage.) 
White Partridge. Edwards, pi. 72. 
White Grous. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 183. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 
743. U. 
Like the foregoing species, which is considered 
to be only a variety of the common Ptarmigan, 
Temminck describes this as the winter dress of 
the following species ; but as this species does not 
occur in Scotland, where the Red Ptarmigan is 
very abundant, I think his conjectures respecting 
it rather unfounded. 
This is rather larger than the common Ptar- 
migan, which it greatly resembles : the plumage 
in both sexes is a glossy white, as are the two 
middle tail-feathers ; the four outer ones on each 
side being black, with white tips : the legs and 
