PG AT Bw eae. 
Terrao Lacopus. Lin. Sy/f. i. p. 274. he 
* Suec. 203.—Scop. Ann. i. N° 170. 
Raii. Syn. p. §5. §.—Baun. p. §0. 
Phil. Tranf. vol. \xii. p. 390.—Frifch. 
pl r10. 111.—Kram. el. p. 356. 
Faun. Groenl, N° 80.—Georgi. Reife. p. 172. 
Lacopus. Gefuer. av. 576. | 
Plinit. lib. x. c. 48. 
Perdrix alba feu Lagopus, Perdice alpeftre. 
Aldro. av. 11..66. 
Waitt GamMe*. Will. orn. p. 176. pl. 32. 
PrarMican. Br. Zool. 1. N° 95.—Gent. Mag. 1772. 
pl. in p. 74.—8ib. Scot. 16. 
Pen. Lool.— Artt.— Br. Muf.—Lev. Muf.—Lath. 
Gen. Syn. UV. 741. 10. 
La Gelinote blanche. Brifl orn. 1. p. 216.12.—Pl, enl. 129. 
(Winter dre/s).— Pl. enl. 494. (Summer drefs). 
Ua Perdrix blanche. Belon. av. 259. 
Le Lagopéde. Buff. ois. ii. p. 264. pl. 9. 
Snoripa, Faun. Suec. fp. 203. 
Schneeuhn. Frifch. 1. 110. 
Schneehun. Kram. 359. 
This fpecies meafures fourteen or fifteen inches from the tip of the 
bill to the extremity of the tail: extent twenty three, weight nineteen 
ounces. Its fummer drefs varies exceedingly from that which it af- 
fumes in winter ; in the former the general colour is pale brown, or 
afh-colour, not inelegantly marked, or mottled with dufky bars, fpots, 
* Erroneoufly calied the White Partridge 
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