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lives with a hick and a loop. In fummer 
they are good eating ; but in winter they taffe 
ftrongly of the pine fpruce, upon which they 
feed during that feafon, eating berries in fum- 
mer. They live in pine woods, their nefls 
arc on the ground ; they generally lay but five 
eggs. 
Tetrao, 16. Lagopu?, 274.4. White Grous. Faun. 
Am. Sept. 10. Ptarmigan. Br. Zool. La- 
gopede de la Baye de Hudfon. Buffon Oif- 
eaux II. p. 276. Edvv. t. 72. 
Severn River. N° 1 — 4. Willow-partridges. 
The Hudfon’s Bay ptarmigan has been feparated 
from theEuropean in ths Britifh Zoology,and 
afterwards by M. de Buffon : however, 1 muff 
own, I cannot yet find the differences which 
they aflign to thefe fpecies. They contend that 
the Hudfon’s Bay bird figured by Edwards is 
twice as big as the European ptarmigan ; Mr. 
Edwards, I think, does not intimate this, 
when he fays, the bird is of a middle fize, 
between partridge and pheafant; he on the 
contrary fuppofes them to be the fame fpecies. 
The Britifh Zoology, after Willoughby, fays, 
the ptarmigan’s length is 13! inches. The 
account from Severn River fays it is 1 6 T inches. 
The breadLh in the Britifh Zoology is faid to 
be 25 inches. The breadth in the Hudfon’s 
Bay birds, according to the accounts from Se- 
vern River, is 23 inches. Willoughby’s ptar- 
migan weighed 14 ounces j that in the Britifh 
Zool. 
