BRITISH BIRDS 
WHITE GROUSE. 
WHITE GAME, OR PTARMIGAN. 
( Tetrao lagopus , Lin . — Le Lagopede y Buff.) 
This bird is nearly the fame fize as the Red 
Groufe : Its bill is black ; the upper parts of its 
body are of a pale brown or alh colour, mottled 
with fmall dulky fpots and bars ; the bars on the 
head and neck are fomewhat broader, and are mix- 
ed with white; the under parts are white, as are 
alfo the wings, excepting the lhafts of the quills, 
which are black. This is its fummer drefs ; in 
winter it changes to a pure white, except that in 
the male there is a black line between the bill and 
the eye ; the tail confifts of fixteen feathers ; the 
two middle ones are alh- coloured in fummer, and 
