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rock ptarmigan
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a chubby, partridge-like fowl, Lagopus rupestris, of the Barren Grounds.
Quotations
1882
. . . lastly there appears to be only the rocker or rock ptarmigan (Lagopus rupestris, Leach).
1883
There is another kind called the rock ptarmigan . . . an Alpine species, inhabiting only the highest and barest mountain ridges, and called the "mountain partridge."
1927, 1937
Jack shot 1 Rock Ptarmigan on ridge by his traps.
1964
Two species of ptarmigan--the willow and the rock--frequent Banks Island and supplement the Eskimos' diet.