RED PTARMIGAN. 



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toes are well feathered : in the summer the plumage 

 is varied with large spots and stripes of white and 

 dull orange. 



It is stated to be abundant at Hudson's Bay, 

 and lives in flocks in winter, feeding on the tops 

 of the willows : are good eating, and so common 

 that ten thousand have been taken at the several 

 forts in one winter, by driving them under nets 

 properly placed. They have from nine to eleven 

 young, and breed every where on the coasts. By 

 some they are called Snow Hens, from burrowing 

 in the snow. 



RED PTARMIGAN. 



(Lagopus Scoticus.) 



La. corpore rufo nigricantequetransversim striato; rectricibus sex 



utrinque exterioribus nigricantibus. 

 Ptarmigan with the body transversely striated with rufous and 



dusky 3 the six exterior tail-feathers on each side dusky. 

 Lagopus Scoticus. Leach. Cat. Brit. Mus, p, 2/. 

 Lagopus altera Plinii. Raii, Syn, 54. a. 3. 

 Tetrao Scoticus. Lath, Ind. Orn. 2. 641. 15. 

 Bonasa Scotica. Briss. Orn, 1. 199. 5. pi. 22, f. 1. 

 Tetrao Lagopus^ var. Linn, Syst, Nat, 1. 274. — Gmel. Syst. 



Nat, 1, 750. 



Tetrao Saliceti. (Summer plumage.) Temm. Gall. Ind, 7IO. 

 Tetrao subalpinus. mr. A, Nilss. Orn, Suec. 1. 308. 



