Salmon, halibut, and ptarmigan are the usual luxuries, and they pall on the palate after a time.
We had been twelve or thirteen hours on horseback, not to mention occasional half-hours of pretty severe walking after the ptarmigan and plover.
One deer and a few arctic ptarmigan were my only trophies.
One day I managed to get six brace of ptarmiganand some dotterel--and very pretty birds they were.
Ptarmigan are curious birds on the Glenshee hills, the ground being so desperately rough it needed all your wits to walk and take care of your gun, marking down the birds as they fluttered up like pigeons.
It is to Egypt that Pythagoras owed his favourite doctrine of the Metempsychosis or transmigration of souls.
It appears besides from Scripture, that Nechao, after his victory, made himself master of this capital of Judea; for he was there in person, when he gave the crown to Jehoiakim.
The Babylonians and Medes, having destroyed Nineveh, and with it the empire of the Assyrians, were thereby become so formidable, that they drew upon themselves the jealousy of all their neighbours.
Looking down from Ptarmigan Ridge into the Canyon of the North Mowich Glacier and up to the cloud-wreathed Peak.
On the same day the last covey of ptarmigan was met with.
Thus the months went by until the middle of May arrived, and the ptarmigan began to appear.
Hunting excursions were organised, and reindeer, musk oxen, partridges, and ptarmigan were met with.
A black fox came toward him, carrying a ptarmigan in his mouth.
He came upon a valley where rock ptarmigan rose on whirring wings from the ledges and muskegs.
I kill threeptarmigan with the woman's revolver, and we are made somewhat strong again.
The mother ptarmigan beat about him with great outcry.
It was no uncommon thing now for him to stumble and fall; and stumbling once, he fell squarely into a ptarmigan nest.
But he could not stop, for the motherptarmigan was running on.
On the northwestern slope of the mountain, a part of Ptarmigan Ridge.
The name was given on account of the large number of ptarmigan families found there each summer.
Thus alongPtarmigan Ridge for considerable vertical and horizontal range the rock shows only slight variation.
The valley was filled with the purr of running water; from their rocks the whistlers called forth their soft notes; up on the green plain the ptarmigan were fluting, and rising in white-winged flocks.
He caught the glint of many ptarmigan wings in the sunlight below.
We started off across grassy swamp, and put up a pair of ptarmigan in the first two dozen yards.
It was the Sunday after the men had started with the mail for Maxohama, and Jervis was walking with Katherine in the woods above the first portage, while the laughing chuckle of the ptarmigan sounded on all sides.
Katherine exclaimed in pleased surprise, as she came down the portage path, laden with a great reed basket filled with ptarmigan eggs.
It is a rather loose structure of fine dry grass-blades, lined with ptarmigan feathers.
Ptarmigan are generally distributed on the Arctic Slope.
Kaolak River, we heard a ptarmigan joining an Arctic tern and several sandpipers in protest to a passing red fox.
On windy, cold days the ptarmigan were mainly on south exposures among grasses and sedges along lakes and on windless days were on flat tundra of polygons but near dwarf shrubs.
The lining, 14 mm thick, wasptarmigan feathers averaging one inch long mixed with successive layers of stems of fine grass.
Wherever ptarmiganwere found, there was evidence that they were resident in the area throughout the year.
On June 27, 1/5 mile northwest of Mount Umiat, two dead willow ptarmigan were noted along the edge of a willow and cotton-grass swale.
In a canyon 1/5 mile northeast of the nest two dead ptarmigan were at the edge of a willow cotton-grass swale.
Gyrfalcons feed on ptarmigan in the river valley and on ground squirrels and small birds on the uplands by striking their prey on the ground.
Would a hare or two, or a brace of ptarmiganbe of any use to you, Mrs. Douglas?
It feeds by choice upon lambs, on fawns and hares; so that, though the ptarmigan and grouse pay tribute, they are not harried by the eagle.
From the wood we rose again to the moorland--to the snipe and ptarmigan and curlews, some yet sitting upon belated eggs--to the heavy going of the moss and the yet heavier going of niggerhead.
At this camp at the head of the glacier we saw ptarmiganon several occasions, and heard their unmistakable cry on several more, and once we felt sure that a covey passed over the ridge above us and descended to the other glacier.
Like Big Pete, the witch-bear, the ptarmigan and the stinging insects, the mountains themselves had joined in the weird game and were donning their fernseed caps of invisibility.
Four hares were shot and traces of ptarmigan seen.
On Lockwood Island numerous traces of foxes, lemmings, hares, and ptarmigan were seen.
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