costume changes, and the feathers have a mixture ofblack and yellow, with white tips. In Norway the ptarmigan is taken insnares that are set in the snow. A forked twig of birch is stuck into the snow,so as to make a kind of arch. A noose made of hair is fixed to the twig S.YARIiYG PTARMIGANS.… … THE rXARMIGAN IN WINTER PLUMAGE. Sometimes the hair noose is found round the neck of the bird when itcomes to the London market. One peasant will set as many as a thousand of these snares. r^ 204 STOJilES ABOUT BIRDS. THE QUAIL. When the children of Israel were wandering in the wilderness, and were…
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