. A dictionary of birds . n Mr. Millaiss Gaine Birds and Shooting Sketches (London : 1892). 1 On the Grouse-disease the papers of Prof. Young in Proc. Nat. Hist. , i. p. 225, and Dr. Farquharson, Edinb. Med. Journal, No. 263, p. 222,may be consulted ; but especially Dr. Kleins Reports in The Field (23 July 1887and 15 June 1889, and his work on the subject (London : 1892). 392 GROUSE Though the Red Grouse does not, after the manner of othermembers of the genus Lagopus, become white in winter, Scotlandpossesses a species of the genus which does. This is the Ptar-migan,^ L. mutus or L.
. A dictionary of birds . n Mr. Millaiss Gaine Birds and Shooting Sketches (London : 1892). 1 On the Grouse-disease the papers of Prof. Young in Proc. Nat. Hist. , i. p. 225, and Dr. Farquharson, Edinb. Med. Journal, No. 263, p. 222,may be consulted ; but especially Dr. Kleins Reports in The Field (23 July 1887and 15 June 1889, and his work on the subject (London : 1892). 392 GROUSE Though the Red Grouse does not, after the manner of othermembers of the genus Lagopus, become white in winter, Scotlandpossesses a species of the genus which does. This is the Ptar-migan,^ L. mutus or L. alpinus, which differs far more in structure,station, and habits from the Red Grouse than that does from theWillow-Grouse, and in Scotland is far less abundant, haunting onlythe highest and most barren mountains. It is said to have for-merly inhabited both Wales and England, but there is no evidenceof its appearance in Ireland. On the continent of Europe it isfound most numerously in Norway, but at an elevation far above. the growth of trees, and it occurs on the Pyrenees, and on theAlps. It also inhabits northern Russia, but its eastern limit is ^ James I. (as quoted by Mr. Gray, B. W. Scotlaml, p. 230) AYiiting fromWhitehall in 1617 spelt the word Termigant, and in this form it appears inone of the Scots Acts in 1621. Taylor the water poet, who (in 1630) seemsto have been the first Englishman to use the word, has Termagant. How theunnecessary initial letter has crept into the name is more than is known to can only trace it to Sibbald in 1684. The word is admittedly from the GaelicTarmachan, meaning, according to some, a dweller upon heights, butthought by Dr. T. MLauchlan to refer possibly to the noise made by the birdswings in taking flight. It has of course really nothing to do with the name ofthe idol which early mediaeval writers supposed to be worshipped by Pagans. GROUSE 393 unknown. In North America, Greenland/ and Iceland it is repre-sented by a very nearly alli
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