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Title: The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University) NCRS Blyth, Edward, 1810-1873 Mudie, Robert, 1777-1842 Johnston, George, 1797-1855 Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893 Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: London : Wm. S. Orr and Co., Amen Corner, Paternoster Row
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e tarsi. [They are monogamous, and do not strut with expanded tail-featliers]. The more generally diffused species become white iu winter. The Common Ptarmigan (T./«(7rt;;j»j?, Lin.).—Inhabits our highest mountains, and shelters itself, in winter, in holes which it burrows in the snow [a habit which isalso practised by the common Partridge.] The WillowPtarmigan (T. saliceti, Tern.), from the whole north, islarger, with a stouter bill. [Though not found inBritain, like the last, it is the common species of theLondon markets. Another, still more densely clad{/,. bradi/dacttfla, Gould), occurs in Russia, and thereare additional species in Iceland and in North America].There is a Ptarmigan in Scotland, however, whichdoes not change colour in winter. The Heath Ptarmigan (T. scoticiis, Latham).—[Com-mon Moor-foicl, or Red Grouse of sportsmen, remark-able for being quite restricted in its distribution to theBritish islands: it renews its feathers twice a year,however, like the others].
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Me may here separate by the na :of The Gangas {Pterocles, Tem.)—The species with a pointed tail and naked toes.9—Sternum of Gon^a. fhc cifcumference of the eyes alone is naked, and their thumb is very small. [The wings are remarkably long and pointed, \ith the GALLIX.E. 220 first quill longest, and flight extraordinarily swift; stcrjial crest tnore dcvclopc*! tliaii iii any other birdwliatever, the inner emargination of the sternum almost obliterated : furcula singularly short and wide,without any appcndilage: the alijnentary i)assage resembles that of other Ioidiry, having eocca asmuch ileveloped as in a Partridge. The feathers arc moulted twice a year, and resemble tliose of theBustards, both sexes being alike in winter, and the male acquiring a peculiar garb in summer. Theylay few eggs, and the young do not follow their parents for some time, but are fed by them in thenest. They inhabit the arid deserts of .Vfnca and .Vrabia, atui are peculiar to the eastern hemisphere.]One (T
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