whitetailed ptarmigan

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a ptarmigan, Lagopus leucurus, native to the mountainous areas of the West and Northwest.

Quotations

1852

The willow and white-tailed ptarmigans bear the designation of Kasbah or Kampbah, in the Slave or Chepewyan tongue.

1950

Above the last clumps of bushes, in the open rocky meadows, are the flocks of white-tailed ptarmigan and the little larks.

1959

White-tailed Ptarmigan [is also called] Rock ptarmigan (B.C.).