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Le Lagopede de la Bale d'Hudfon, Buf. pif. Hi p. 276. u. 



White Partridge, ify?. #a# 5«j, i. pi. 1 — Edw. pi. J2.—Jr3. Zod. •*• WHITE GR. 



13 E SIDES the one above-defcribed, a much larger fort is Description. 



met with at Hud/en's Bay, which Forfier feems to think the 

 lame bird, though Buffon and Pennant efteem it different. X 

 cannot determine this point : however it is two inches longer, 

 and in the winter cloathing feems- perfectly the fame ; but Mr. 

 Pennant fays it differs much in the fummer drefs, Edwards's bird' 

 being marked with large fpots of white and dull orange,, whereas- 

 that of the Ptarmigan is pale brown or afh-colour; however this 

 be, I have feen fuch variety of birds in the fummer- drefs, that I 

 am at a lofs what to fay about it.. 



Dr. Forfier informs us, that this fort is in plenty at Hudfon's Place. 



Bay*, and lives, in flocks in winter, feeding on the tops of the 

 willows j hence are called Willow Partridges r are fine eating, 

 and fo plenty that ten thoufand have been taken at the everal 

 forts in one winter, by driving them under nets properly placed. 

 They have from nine to eleven young, and breed every where on 

 the coafts. They are alfo called Sn&w Hens, and by the French-' 

 White Partridges f. 



* In Lapland likewife. — See Amcen. Acad. i. p. 349. de Be tula nana* 

 t Kalm. Trav, iii. p. 58. 



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