land, and on the hills of Snowden, in Wales ; they abound 

 on all the heathy mountains in the north of Weftmoreland 

 and Cumberland, and like the Black Grous feed on moft kinds 

 of mountain berries. 



It lays ten or twelve dirty white coloured eggs (in fize 

 rather exceeding thofe of the partridge) fpotted with brown ; 

 it does not make any neft, but depofits the eggs on the bare 

 ground, in fome retired fpot beneath the little tufts of heath 

 abundant on the parts thefe birds frequent. 



The Ptarmigan is not as my as any other fpecies of Grous, 

 but will fuffer themfelves to be approached without attempting 

 to efcape ; " the herdfmen frequently knock them down with 

 flicks 5" the male in the fpring utters a crowing note, which 

 is not unlike the crow of a young capon- 

 In the fummer months thefe birds are found with brown 

 mottled feathers, which they are fuppofed to caft at the fall 

 of the year ; we have feen a brace killed within the prefent 

 month that had a confiderable number of coloured feathers on 

 different parts. 



We have received fpecimens from our friends Mr. Harri- 

 son and Mr. Bullock, the one perfectly white except the 

 tail, and the other mottled all over ; in the month of January 

 181 1, we faw a white bird of this genus on the fide of Box- 

 Hill, Surrey, but were not able to approach fufficiently near 

 to afcertain whether it was the prefent fpecies or a partridge. 



Its provincial names are White Grous, Snow Grous, 

 White Game, and White or Snow Partridge. 



