﻿G: R O U Si 74*! 



neck*.. It is obferved that more males are brought to market 

 than females,, no doubt occafioned by their being betrayed to the- 

 Iportfman by their noife.. 



Tetrao lagopus, Lin. Syft-i i. p. 274. 4.— Faun, Suet. 203.— Scop. am. i. I0 , 



N° 170. — Rati Syn. p. 55. 5. — Brun. p. 59.— Mulhr, N» 223.— 4»PTARMIGAN 

 Phil, franf. vol. Ixii. p. ^o.—Frifch. pi. 1 10. ill.— Kram. el. p. GR. 



356. — F«*». G/ws/. N° 8o.—Georgi Reife, p. 17?. 



La Gelinote blanche, Brif. orn. 1. p. 216. 12. — PI. enl. 129, (in the winter 

 drefs.) — PL enl. 494. (in that of fummerj, 



Le Lagopede, Buf. oif. ii. p. 264. pi. 9. 



White Game, Will. orn. p. 176. pi. 32. 



Ptarmigan, Br.Zool. i. N 6 95. — Gent. Mag. 1772. pi. in p. 74. — Tour in 

 S-cotl. 1771. pi. 16. f. 1. — Aril. Zool. 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf, 



T E N G T H from fourteen to fifteen inches. Bill-black: the Description.. 



plumage of a pale brown or afli-colour, elegantly crofted 

 or mottled with fmall duiky fpots, and minute bars ; the head- 

 and neck with. broad bars of black, ruft-colour, and white: the 

 wings white.; the fhafts of the greater quills black: the belly 

 white. In the male the grey predominates, except on the head 

 and neck, where there is a great mixture of red, with bars of 

 white. The. females and young birds have a great deal of 

 ruft-colour about them : both agree in their winter-drefs, which 

 is pure white,, except that in the males, black line occurs between 

 the bill and eye, and the fhafts. of the firft-feven quills are- 

 folack.: the tail .confifts of fixteen feathers ; the two middle ones-* 



♦ Catefijh figure feems to be in the middle ftate between thefe* 



are- 



