WHITE PTARMIGAN. 



(Lagopus albus.) 



La. corpore (Estate albo Juhoque vario ; hyeme toto albo ; rectri" 

 cibus atris apice albis ; duabus inter7nediis totis albis. 



Ptarmigan with the body in summer varied with white and 

 fulvous } in the winter totally white ; the tail-feathers dark- 

 coloured^ with white tips ; the two middle feathers entirely 

 white. 



Tetrao albus. GmeL Syst. Nat. 1. 570. 23.— Lath, Ind. Orw.2, 

 639. 10. 



Tetrao saliceti. Temm. Gall. Ind, 709. (winter plumage.) 



Tetrao subalpinus. Nilss. Orn, Suec. 307 • 



Lagopede de la bale d'Hudson. BuJ^. Ois. 2, 270. 



Tetras des saules, ou muet. — Temm. Pig. et Gall. 3. p, 208. pi. 



11, 1, 2, 3. Temm, Man. d'Orni. 295. (winter plumage-) 

 White Partridge. Edwards, pi. 72. 



White Grous. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 183. — Lath, Gen. Syn. 4. 

 743. 11. 



Like the foregoing species, which is considered 

 to be only a variety of the common Ptarmigan, 

 Temminck describes this as the winter dress of 

 the following species ; but as this species does not 

 occur in Scotland, where the Red Ptarmigan is 

 very abundant, I think his conjectures respecting 

 it rather unfounded. 



This is rather larger than the common Ptar- 

 migan, which it greatly resembles : the plumage 

 in both sexes is a glossy white, as are the two 

 middle tail-feathers ; the four outer ones on each 

 side being black, with white tips : the legs and 



