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ptarmigan
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What does ptarmigan mean?
noun
- Any of three species of small grouse in the genus Lagopus found in subarctic tundra areas of North America and Eurasia.
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Partridges, spruce hens, ptarmigan, rabbits, ducks, and geese are usually abundant enough to fill the provision list.
It was served under the name of ptarmigan, of which it really reminded one.
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He could take a ptarmigan from its nest, kill a rabbit as it slept, and snap in mid air the little chipmunks fleeing a second too late for the trees.
With respect to the cause or purpose of the differences in colour between the summer and winter plumage, this may in some instances, as with the ptarmigan (79.
Their miniature thickets are noisy with the cries of Fieldfare, Pipit, and Ptarmigan, but these are left behind on nearing the upper plateau, where shade of rock and sough of wind are all that take their place.