RED PTARMIGAN. 
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toes are well feathered : in the summer the plumage 
is varied with large spots and stripes of white and 
dull orange. 
It is stated to be abundant at Hudsons Bay, 
and lives in flocks in winter, feeding on the tops 
of the willows : are good eating, and so common 
that ten thousand have been taken at the several 
forts in one winter, by driving them under nets 
properly placed. They have from nine to eleven 
young, and breed every where on the coasts. By 
some they are called Snow Hens, from burrowing 
in the snow. 
RED PTARMIGAN. 
(Lagopus Scoticus,) 
La. corpore rufo nigricantequetransversim striato; rectricibus sex 
uirinque exterioribus nigricantibiis. 
Ptarmigan with the body transversely striated with rufous and 
dusky 3 the six exterior tail-feathers on each side dusky. 
Lagopus Scoticus. Leach. Cat. Brit. Mus. p. 27. 
Lagopus altera Plinii. Raii. Spn, 54. a. 3. 
Tetrao Scoticus. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 641. 15. 
Bonasa Scotica. Briss. Orn. 1. igg. 5. pi, Tl. f. 1. 
Tetrao Lagopus, var. Linn. Sqst. Nat. 1. 274. — Gmel. Spsl. 
Nat. 1. 750. 
Tetrao Saliceti. (Summer plumage.) Temm. Gall. Ind, 7IO. 
Tetrao subalpinus. var. A, Nilss. Orn. Succ. 1 . 308. 
