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TETRAO LAGOPUS MUTUS. 
T. urogallus, a former inhabitant of Scotland) prefc r 
forests of pine, and of such other hardy trees as gro"' 
readily on the sides of mountains. The red gro' 18 ?’ 
( T. scoticus,) so highly esteemed as an article of fo°“’ 
and so eagerly followed by our sportsmen, confin^ 
itself to the acclivities of mountains and moors, a"® 
is careless of other shelter than that afforded by tj 1 * 
natural roughness of the ground and its plenti!®) 
covering of heath. The habits of the black cot* 
( T. tetrix) may be said to be, in this respect, intern' 1- ' 
diate between those of the two species just alluded toj 
for although it usually occurs in mountainous a#®, 
moorish districts, it exhibits a partiality for cover 
birch or willow. Ptarmigans seem to prefer, in com- 
paratively temperate climates, such as that of Scotian'*’ 
the bare and stony sides and summits of the high® 8 * J 
mountains; but under the severe climate of Greenland ] 
and the most northern parts of North America, tb e ) 
are chiefly found in the vicinity of the sea shore, b/ 
the banks of rivers, and among the willow and oth" r 
copse wood of the lower and more sheltered vales. 
88. TETRAO (ZJOOPVS) MUTUS, LEACH. THE PTARMIGAN* 
Ptarmigan, Penn. Brit. Zo:l. 1. p. 359, pi. 57. —Upper Fig'"*' 1 
Tetrao lagopus, Captain Sabine, Snppl. Parry’s First V°t 
p. cxcvii. Sab. (./. ) Frank/. Journ. p. 682. Richardson, 4l'f' 
Parry's Second Voy. p. 300. 
According to Captain Sabine, this bird inhabits t h 'j 
islands lying to the southwest of Baffin’s Bay, as we' 1 
as the loftiest mountains in Scotland. A spec-in" - ' 1 
from Churchill River, Hudson’s Bay, was declared by 
Mr Sabine to be identical with the ptarmigan of Sc" 1 ' 
land, thus establishing it as an inhabitant of j* 11 i 
American continent. It, remains, however, to be sec*® 
whether or not. it is the same, according to the metbo® 
of discrimination, depending on the form of the kea<*> 
&c. as pointed out by Brehm. 
