CrassIl PTARMIGAN. 
modern Jialians: but the account left us by Pliny 
feems too brief and uncertain to determine at this 
time what fpecies he intended; and that the Fran- 
colina is not the fame with our grous, is evident 
from the figure of it exhibited by our accurate 
friend Mr. Edwards *. 
Thefe birds pair in the fpring, and lay from fix 
to ten eggs: the young brood or packs follow the 
hen the whole fummer; in the winter they join in 
flocks of forty or fifty, and become remarkably 
fhy and wild: they always keep on the tops of the 
hills, are fcarce ever found on the fides, and ne- 
ver defcend into the vallies; their food is the moun- 
tain berries, and the tops of heath, 
La perdris blanche. Belonav. White Game, erroneoufly 
259. called the white Partridge, 
Lagopus. Gefner av. 575. Wil. orn. 176. 
Perdrix alba feu Lagopus, The Ptarmigan. $70. Scot. 16. 
Perdice alpeftre. Aldr. Pl. Enl.129. Hift. d’ Oys. i. 
av. II. 66. 264. 
Lagopus. Phiiz lib. x. c. 48. 
Tetrao Lagopus. Liz. /y/. 
274. 
Snoripa. Faun. Suec. fp. 203. 
La Gelinote blanche. Briffou 
av. I. 216. | 
Raii fyn. av. 55. 
4 
Norv. Rype. Mas Ilands, 
2971 
95. Prarmt- 
GAN. 
Riupkarre, Fem. Riupa. ° 
Brunnich 199- 
Schneehuhn. Frifch, I. 110. 
Schneehun. Kram. 356. 
Br. Zool. 86 plates M. 4. 5. . 
Scopoli, No. 118. 
HIS bird ts well defcribed by Mr. Willugh- 
by, under the name of the white game. 
* Plates 246, 
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M. Briffoz 
