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ORD. V. GEN. II. GROUS. 



SPE. III. PTARMIGAN. 



PI. 135. 

 Tetrao lagopus. Lin. Syft. I. p. 274. 

 La Gelinote blanche. Brif. Orn. I. p. i\ 6. 



This lpecies is much fmaller than either of the preceding, being in length 

 only fifteen inches, in breadth twenty-three, and in weight nineteen ounces. 

 The plumage of the young birds is chiefly of a pale brown, or afh colour, 

 crofTed with minute bars and fpots of black, ruft colour, and white, and with 

 broader bars on the head and neck : the wings and belly white : the fhafts of 

 the greater quills black : the legs are fo completely covered with feathers, or 

 lather hairs, as to appear like thofe of a hare or rabbit. 



Both fexes are of a pure white in winter, excepting the tail, which is the 

 fame at all feafons ; the two middle feathers being white, the reft black. 



This bird inhabits Scotland, the Orknies, and the Hebrides in plenty, and is 

 found in Cumberland and Wales, as well as in all the northern parts of Europe, 

 and in great abundance in the north of America. It lays about ten eggs, in 

 the month of June} for which fee PI. XXX. Fig. 3. 





