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tives with a flick and a loop. In fummer 

 they are good eating ; but in winter they tafle 

 '■flrongly of the pine fpruce, upon which they 

 feed during that feaibn, eating berries in fum- 

 mer. They live in pine woods, their nefts 

 are on the .ground y they generally- lay but five 



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'Tetrao, 16. Lagopus, 274.4. White Grous. Faun. 

 Am. Sept. 10. Ptarmigan. Br. Zool. La- 

 gopede de la Baye de Hudibn. Buffon Oif- 

 eaux II. p. 276. Edw. t. 72. 

 Severn River. N° 1^—4. Willow-partridges. 



The Hudfon's Bay ptarmigan has been feparated 

 from theEuropean in the Britifh Zoology,and 

 afterwards by M. de Buffon : however, I mud 

 own, I cannot yet find the differences which 

 they aflign to thefe fpecies. They contend that 

 the Hudfon's Bay bird figured by Edwards is 

 twice as big as the European ptarmigan -, Mr. 

 Edwards, I think, does not intimate this, 

 when he fays, the bird is of a middle fize, 

 between partridge and pheafantj he on the 

 contrary fuppofes them to be the fame fpecies. 

 The Britifh Zoology, after Willoughby, fays, 

 the ptarmigan's length is 13I inches. The 

 account from Severn River favs it is 1 6 T inches. 

 The breadth in the Britifh Zoology is faid to 

 be 23 inches. The breadth in the Hudfon's 

 Bay birds, according to the accounts from Se- 

 vern River, is 23 inches. Willoughby 's ptar- 

 migan weighed 14 ounces; that in the Britifh 



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