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among these we must place the ptarmigan (Lagopus), 

 of which more than one species occur in the tundra. 

 In Greenland, in Arctic America and the adjacent 



Fig. 2. The Ptarmigan, with nest, young, and eggs, showing the 

 stony uplands where the bird breeds in Highland Scotland. {From 

 a specimen in the Royal Scottish Museum.) 



regions, in Spitsbergen, in Northern Asia, these birds 

 occur, sometimes in considerable numbers. In the slow 



