Class II. 



PTARMIGAN. 



3.0!) 



remarkably shy and wild : they always keep on 

 the tops of the hills, are scarcely ever found on 

 the sides, and never descend into the vallies; 

 their food is the mountain berries, and the tops 

 of heath. 



Tetrao Lagopus. T. cinereo al- 

 boque varius, pedibus lana- 

 tis, remigibus albis, reetri- 

 cibus nigris apice albis, in- 

 termediis albis. Lath. Ind. 

 orn. 639. id. Syn. iv. 741. 

 id. Sup. i. 216. 



La perdris blanche. Belon av. 

 259. 



Lagopus. Gesner av. 576. 



Perdrix alba seu Lagopus, 

 Perdrice alpestre. Aldr. av. 

 ii. 66. 



Lagopus. Plinii lib. x. c. 48. 



Tetrao Lagopus. Gm. Lin. 749. 



Snoripa. Faun. Suec. sp. 203. 



La Gelinote blanche. Brisson 



i. 216. Hist. d'Ois. ii. 4. Ptarmi- 



264. PI. Enl. 129. 

 JRaii syn. av. 5b. 

 White Game, erroneously 



called the white Partridge. 



Wil. orn. 176. 

 The Ptarmigan. Sib. Scot. 16. 

 Norv. Rype. Mas Islandis, 



Ptiupkarre, Fcem. Ptiupa. 



Brunnich 199. 

 Schneehuhn. Frisch, i. 110. 

 Schneehun. Kram. 356. 

 Scopoli. No. 118. 

 Br. Zool. 86 plates M. 4. 5. 



Arct. Zool. i. 368. 



GAN. 



XHIS bird is well described by Mr. JVilhtgh- 

 by, under the name of the white game. M. 

 Brisson* joins it with the white partridge of 

 Mr. Edwards, plate 72. I have received both 



* Tom. i. p. 216. 



