& j#THE NATURAL HISTORY 
When they are much difturbed, they fy on 
trees, and if the fowler has a dog, they attend fo 
much to him, that they may be fhotcwne after 
another, without once attempting to fly away. 
‘They are very unfulpecting birds, and will fome- 
times fuffer themfelvcs to be knocked down with 
a flick, or caught by a noofe at the end ofa 
pole. In the country where they are found, the 
inhabitants kill a great many at the beginning of 
winter; and the cold weather freezes them, fo 
that they will keep perfectly {weet until the fpring ; 
before they are drefied, they are thrown into cold 
‘water, which thaws them. 
The fourth fpecies is the Ptarmigan. The 
legs and tocs are warmly clothed with aithick 
und Jong coat of foft white feathers, like the fur 
on the feet of the hare. Ce a ee 
‘The quill feathers are white, the outer tall 
feathers black, except at the points, where'they 
ure white. The two middle tail feathers afb 
coloured in faummer, and white in winter. 
In the winter they are white, except a black — 
line in the male between the Bill and the cyt, and 
the thafts of the feven firit quill feathers, which 
continue black. 


