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Identifier: britishbirds00huds (find matches) Title: British birds Year: 1921 (1920s) Authors: Hudson, W. H. (William Henry), 1841-1922 Beddard, Frank E. (Frank Evers), 1858-1925 Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain Publisher: London, New York (etc.) Longmans, Green, and co. Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: on the ground, anearth-lover, like his stay-at-home relation, the partridge ; yet in hiswide wanderings he crosses seas, vast deserts, and the loftiestmountain chains ; and by means of this migratory instinct he hasdiffused himself over the three great continents of Europe, Asia,and Africa. Ptarmigan.Lagopus mutus. Winter: pure white; a black line from the angle of the beakthrough the eye ; outer tail-feathers black ; above the eye a scarletfringed membrane; beak black ; tarsi and toes thickly clothed withwoolly feathers. Female : without the black line through the eyes.Summer: wings, under tail-coverts, two middle tail-feathers, andlegs white; outer tail-feathers black, some of them tipped withwhite; all the rest of the plumage ash-bro\vn marked with blacklines and dusky spots. Length, fifteen inches. In the British Islands the ptarmigan is at present confined tothe Highlands of Scotland, the * region of stones, and to some of itsislands, where, however, it is decreasing in numbers. Text Appearing After Image: PTABMIGAN 271 A peculiar interest attaches to this bird on account of its changeof plumage from brown in summer to snow-white in winter, and of thefact that it inhabits only the summits and slopes of high mountains.These two things—the white winter plumage and the mountain habit—have a close connection. The periodical change to whi
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