. The gallinaceous game birds of North America, including the partridges, grouse, ptarmigan, and wild turkeys . feathers have much broader bars of both black and palebuff, and the latter is more conspicuous here than on any otherpart of the bird; tail, seal brown, edged with white at the tips; 156 GAME BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA. legs, white; bill, dark horn color, lightest at tip; claws, horncolor. Total length, iiy^ inches; wing, 7; tail, 4y*^; tarsus, ij%.Exposed culmen, half inch. A Greenland specimen from Sukkertoppen, also an adult female,varies from the above described bird, in having more
. The gallinaceous game birds of North America, including the partridges, grouse, ptarmigan, and wild turkeys . feathers have much broader bars of both black and palebuff, and the latter is more conspicuous here than on any otherpart of the bird; tail, seal brown, edged with white at the tips; 156 GAME BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA. legs, white; bill, dark horn color, lightest at tip; claws, horncolor. Total length, iiy^ inches; wing, 7; tail, 4y*^; tarsus, ij%.Exposed culmen, half inch. A Greenland specimen from Sukkertoppen, also an adult female,varies from the above described bird, in having more buff on theunder parts, and considerable white on the abdomen; the flankfeathers are also more buff, as the bars are decidedly date of capture of this example is not given and it is impos-sible to tell whether it has quite assumed the breeding plumage,or is passing from it, but as there are no feathers of an autumndress visible it is probable that the breeding dress is not yetcompleted; the autumn dress seems to be ochraceous, mottledwith black, and black blotches interspersed on the upper 36. Welchs Ptarmigan. WELCHS PTARMIGAN. T^HIS may be called the Rock Ptarmigan of New-foundland, and is a dark-grayish bird with a bluishtinge to the plumage, which has been likened to thecolor of the Sooty Grouse, and all the feathers are dottedwith blackish. It is very numerous in the rocky portionsof the island it inhabits, distributed among the moun-tains in the interior, and is rather local, not going farfrom the place in which it was reared. It may be con-sidered the Alpine species of Newfoundland Ptarmigan,not often met with below the line of spruce forest, exceptwhen it descends in winter to feed on the buds of varioustrees growing in the lowlands. It is sometimes calledthe Mountain Partridge, and occasionally associates withthe Willow Grouse. Very little is known of its habits. LA GO PUS RUPESTRIS WELCH I. Geographical Distribution.—Mountains of Newfoundland. Adult
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