Locality. 
Haunt. 
310. GALLINAZ. TETRAO. PTARMIGAN. 
the lower mandible, white. Head, neck, breast, and 
belly, deep chesnut-brown ; in many instances marked 
with fine undulating black lines, and frequently spotted 
with white. Back and wing coverts reddish or chesnut- 
brown, with variously sized black spots. ‘Tail having 
the four middle feathers reddish-brown, with transverse 
black lines; the rest entirely brownish-black. Legs 
and toes thickly clothed with greyish-white feathers. 
Claws long and flat, their cclour yellowish-grey. 
The female varies from the male bird in having the brown of 
a lighter tint, and more varied with ochreous-yellow, and 
yellowish-white. 
Ptarmigan.—Tetrao Lagopus, Linn. 
PLATE 59. Fig. 2. and 59 *, 
Tetrao Lagopus, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 274. 4.—Faun. Suec. No. 203.—Gmei. 
Syst. 1. p. 749.—Raii, Syn. p. 55. 5.— Will. p. 127.—Briss. 1. p. 216. 12. 
Tetrao rupestris, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 751. sp. 24.—Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 2. 
p- 640. sp. 11. 
Le Lagopéde, Buff: Ois. v. 9. p. 264. t. 9.—Zd. Pl. Enl. 129.{female in win- 
ter plumage, and Pl. 494. female assuming the summer plumage. 
L’Attagas blanc, Buff: Ois. v. 2. p. 262. 
Tetras Ptarmigan, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. v. 2. p. 468.—Id. Pig. et Gall. 
v. 3. p. 185. t. anat. 10. f. 1, 2. and 3. 
Haasenfissige “Waldhuba, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 1347.—Meyer, 
Tasschenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 298.—Id. Vog. Deut. v. 2. t. Heft. 19. winter 
and summer plumage. 
Ptarmigan, Br. Zool. 1. No. 95. t. 43.—Arct. Zool. 2. p. 315. D.—Lewin’s 
Br. Birds, 4. t. 134.—Lath. Syn. 4. p. 741. 10.—Waie. Syn. 2. t. 182.— 
Mont. Ornith. Dict.—Id. Supp.—Don. Br. Birds, 1. t. 12. 
Rock-Grous, Lath. Syn. Sup. p. 217.—Aret. Zool. 2. No. 184. 
White Grous, Bewick’s Br. Birds, 1. p. t. 303. old male. 
According to PENNaNY and earlier writers, this species 
seems, at one period, to have inhabited some of the moun- 
tainous ridges of Cumberland and Westmoreland.—It is 
now, however, totally extinct in England, and is only found 
in the Highlands of Scotland and its isles. It lives on the 
highest mountains, particularly those of which the summits 
are covered with fragments of rock; and, byresembli these 
