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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 fhy 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 the male in the fpring utters a crowing note, which 
is not unlike the crow of a young capon. 
Irt 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 
liferent parts. 
We have received fpecimens from our friends Mr. Harri- 
son and Mr. Bullock, the one perfedly white except the 
tail, and the other mottled all over ; in the. month of January 
1811, we faw a white bird of this genus on the fide of Box- 
Hill, Surrey, but were not able to approach fumciently 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, 
