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RED PTARMIGAN. 
La Gelinotte d’Ecosse. Buff. Ois. 2. 242. 
Tetras des Sanies, ou muet. (Summer plumage.) Tcmm. Pig. ci 
Gall. 3. 221.2)1. Q.ff. 5. (head.) — Temm. Man. d'Orn. p. 2Q6. 
Red Game, Moor Cock, Gorcock. Raii. S^n. 54. a . 3. — Alb. 
Birds. 1. pi. 23. 24. 
lied Grous. Penn. Brit. Zocl. 1. Q4.pl. 43. — Lath. Gen. Syn.4> 
/46. 13. — Lath. Syn. Sup. 216. — Lexvin. Brit. Birds, pi. 135. 
— Wale. Syn. 2. pi. 183. — Mont. Or?i. Diet. 1. — Mont. Orn. 
Diet. Supp. — Bexo. Brit. Birds. 1. 301. — Bing. Anim. Biog.2. 
255. — Loxv. Faun. Oread, p. 51. 
The Red Ptarmigan is in length fifteen inches 
and a half : the beak is black : irides hazel : the 
nostrils covered with red and black feathers : at 
the base of the lower mandible is a spot of white : 
the naked space above the eyes is scarlet, and 
somewhat fringed : the head and neck are pale 
tawny red, each feather being marked with several 
bars of black : throat red : breast and belly dull 
purplish brown, crossed with numerous narrow 
dusky lines : quills dusky : the back and scapulars 
deep red, with a large black spot in the middle of 
each feather: tail even, consisting of sixteen fea- 
thers ; the four middle ones barred with tawny 
red, the rest all black : the legs covered with soft 
whitish featliers down to the claws, which are of 
a liglit liorn-colour, hollow, broad, and concave 
underneath. The female is smaller : the colours 
duller than in the male, and the naked space over 
the eye less conspicuous. 
These birds occur at all seasons on the heathy 
and mountainous parts of the northern counties 
of England ; they arc likewise said to be fmind 
