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ruft colour, &c. in both fexes, but in the latter, the female is entirely 
of a very beautiful white ; the male of the fame colour, but is diftin~ ; 
guifhed by a dark dafh, or line which pafles from the bill to the eye, 
and by the fhafts of the firft feven quill feathers being black; the 
twelve extreme feathers of the tail are of the fame black colour. 
Our figure is copied from a male bird which has not wholly afflumed 
its winter appearance, but is in the laft flage of changing its fummer 
drefs, as appears from the flight ‘intermixture of dark feathers on its 
breaft and back. 
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It’ inhabits moft of the northern parts of Europe, even as far as 
Groenland, in Ruffia and Siberia it is very frequent; it is feen in 
plenty on the “/pzme mountains of Savoy, on the Alps, and mount Cenis. 
In Great Britain it is met with on the fummits of the highett hills 
in the Highlands of Scotland. Hebrides, and Orknies, and a few yet 
inhabit the lofty hills near Kefwick in Cumberland, as well as WV aies *. 
They live amidft the rocks, and perch on the grey ftones, the general 
colour of the ftrata in thofe fituations. 
Willughby has defcribed the Ptarmigan under the name of the White 
Game. M. Briffon + joins it with the White Partridge of Edwards, 
but Pennant has given as his decifive opinion that they are two dif- 
tinct fpecies. ‘I have received both {pecies at the fame time from 
Norway, and am convinced that they are not the fame.” Pezz. 
The female lays eight or ten eggs, fpotted with red-brown, the 
fize of thofe of a Pigeon, on the earth, in a {tony fituation, about the 
middle of June f. 
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