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REHUSAK PTARMIGAN. 
(Lagopus Lapponicus.) 
La. corpore cestate rufo et nigricante striato ; are& supra oculos 
rubra; collojerrugineo; cauda nigra ; hyeme toto albo ^ caudd 
nigra, apice et rectricibus duabus intermediis albis. 
Ptarmigan with the body in summer striated with rufous and 
dusky j the region of the eyes red; the neck ferruginous; 
the tail black : in winter the whole body white ; the tail 
black, with its tip and two middle feathers white. 
Tetrao Lapponicus. Lath. Ind, Orn. 2. 040. 12. — Gmel, Syst. 
Nat. 1. 751. 25. — Temm. Gall. Ind. 711. 
Bonasa Scotica. , Briss. Orn. 1. \gg. pi. Tl. f. 1. 
Tetrao subalpinus, var. Nilss. Orn. Stiec. 1. 307- 
Tetras Rehusak. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 3. p. 225. — Temm. Man. 
d'Orni. p. 297* 
Rehusak Grous. Penn, Arct. Zool. 2. 3 16. E . — Lath. Gen. Syn. 
Sup. p.2l6. 
The Rehusak Ptarmigan is one of the species 
that undergoes a change with the seasons, be- 
coming, like the common species, nearly white in 
the winter, with the outer tail-feathers black, and 
the two middle ones and tips of the others white : 
the plumage in the summer greatly resembles that 
of the White Ptarmigan : the sides of the head 
and the throat are of a deep red : the top of the 
head black, with red spots : the. neck reddish, 
transversely striped with black : the back, tlie 
rump, and the tail-coverts, striped with red and 
black : some of the quills white, and the rest 
