. The birds of Washington; a complete, scientific and popular account of the 372 species of birds found in the state . )ber-line. /:././.^. ^ or 10. sometime^ 14. creamy buff or pale ruddy,speckled and round-spotted, rather sparingly, with burnt sienna. .\v. size. xI 10 I X |s. THE WHITE-TAILED PTARMIGAN. 591 General Range.—High mountains of Oregon and \\asliington, north toAlaska. Range in Washington.—Central range and higher peaks of the Cascadesand ( prohahly ) the ()lympic Mountains. Authorities.— (White-tailed ptarmigan, Johnson, Rep. Gov. W. T. 1884(1885 ) Bendi
. The birds of Washington; a complete, scientific and popular account of the 372 species of birds found in the state . )ber-line. /:././.^. ^ or 10. sometime^ 14. creamy buff or pale ruddy,speckled and round-spotted, rather sparingly, with burnt sienna. .\v. size. xI 10 I X |s. THE WHITE-TAILED PTARMIGAN. 591 General Range.—High mountains of Oregon and \\asliington, north toAlaska. Range in Washington.—Central range and higher peaks of the Cascadesand ( prohahly ) the ()lympic Mountains. Authorities.— (White-tailed ptarmigan, Johnson, Rep. Gov. W. T. 1884(1885 ) Bendire, Life Hist. N. A. Birds. Vol. I., 1892, p. 83. T. Rh. D. E. Specimens.— Imv. J!. E. AS the mediates between earth and sky, so does the Ptarmiganl.)etween snow^ and heather. Its plumage, while in winter and mottled gra\-in summer, is an exact counterpart of its chosen surrountlings; and its simpletastes are satisfied with the fare of browse, berries, and chance insects whichis obtainable upon onr highest mountains abo\e the timber-line. Permanent. Taken on hJt. Rainic Prom a Photogrnl^h. Col^yright. 190S, by IV. L. IT.\RMIC,.\N— residence in the case of an\ sjaecies hints at anti(|uitv, but as one studiesthese demure birds in their dwindling fastnesses of rock and ice, be cannothelp thinking oi that elder time when ice jirexailed o\-er all the landscape,and when these hardy Eskimos of the bird-world ma\- ha\-e been the dominantspecies in Wasliingtoii. 59- rill-: \vinTivTAi!.i:i) The- |>ri>iT^>>ts 111 ii;iiuri arc ni s|ii\\, lii>\vc\cr. iliat wc shall never live tosec the ixtirininaliiii i>l the Ilanni^jan. unless the i>i)eraiiiiii is ini oiciir upcni any riilj^e of rock or jjrass-eovered slope alK>\e limher-line in the Cascade and ()lymi)ic Mountains, the local range of these hinls ismuch reslricle<l. and many isolated colonies have already hccn destro
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