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TETRAO LAGOPUS. 
 PrTARMIGAN GrRovus. 
OR 
WHITE GAME. 
GALLIN &. 
Bill convex: the upper mandible arched. Toes connected by a 
membrane at the bottom, ‘Tail feathers more than twelve. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Bill convex, ftrong, and fhort, a naked fcarlet fkin above each 
eye *, Noftrils fmall, hid in the feathers. “Tongue pointed at the 
end. Legs ftrong, feathered to the toes, and fometimes to the nails. 
Toes of fome fpecies pectinated on the fides. 
* With four toes. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 
Length fifteen inches. Bill black. Plumage pale brown or afh- 
colour, croffed or mottled with fmall dufky foots, and minute bars; 
the head and neck with broad bars of black, ruft colour, and white* 
Wings white: Shafts of the greater quills black. Belly white. Win- 
ter drefs pure white, except a black line between the bill and eye, and 
fhafts of the firft feven quills black, in the male. Tail of fixteen 
feathers, the two middle ones afh-coloured in fummer, white in Wine 
ter, two next flightly marked with white near the ends; the reft en- 
tirely black. The upper tail coverts almoft cover the tail. 
_ * Three or four fpecies excepted. 
TETRAO 
