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Ptarmigan

noun
1.
Large Arctic and subarctic grouse with feathered feet and usually white winter plumage.





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"Ptarmigan" Quotes from Famous Books



... Fell, after a rambling ride on the safest and most venerable of mountain ponies. The pony was grey, and Mary was grey, for she wore a neat little homespun habit made by the local tailor, and a neat little felt hat with, a ptarmigan's feather. ...
— Phantom Fortune, A Novel • M. E. Braddon
... head high above all the surrounding world. It shall be known as Mount Hubbard. To this mountain we decided to paddle and view the country. Instinctively we felt that Michikamau lay on the other side. We launched our canoe after a light luncheon of trout and a small ptarmigan George had shot. Once in the course of the afternoon we stopped paddling to climb a low ridge near the shore and eat cranberries, which we found in abundance on its barren top. From the ridge we could see water among ...
— The Lure of the Labrador Wild • Dillon Wallace


Words linked to "Ptarmigan" :   moorgame, moor-bird, moorbird, red grouse, moorfowl, genus Lagopus, grouse, Lagopus, Lagopus scoticus


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