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  • comparatively short legs and necks; the tarsi and toes are feathered in the Ptarmigan, the tarsi, only, feathered in the Grouse, and the tarsi and toes bare...
    24 KB (4,028 words) - 00:40, 26 December 2012
  • Travels in Alaska by John Muir 27337Travels in AlaskaJohn Muir Glenora Peak On the trail to the steamboat-landing at the foot of Dease Lake, I met a Douglas...
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  • Cunningham The King of the Peak, a Derbyshire Tale 2494373Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry — The King of the Peak, a Derbyshire TaleAllan...
    405 bytes (7,200 words) - 15:07, 21 February 2024
  • environment. On the land these include mountain goat, black bear, otter, ptarmigan, and bald eagle. The area is extremely rich in sea bird life of interest...
    5 KB (813 words) - 06:45, 8 August 2021
  • mammals. On the heights, however, breed certain birds, as species of ptarmigan, the rosy finches (Leucosticte), and an occasional golden eagle or great...
    32 KB (5,303 words) - 07:03, 8 April 2024
  • Lyman ​ CHAPTER V A Side Trip to Some of the Great Snow-Peaks Attractions of our Mountain Peaks—Relations to the Rivers—Locations of the Greatest and their...
    326 bytes (6,422 words) - 10:08, 7 August 2019
  • turkey, mountain grouse, sage hen, prairie chicken, ducks, geese, swans, ptarmigan, &c.—According to the census of 1870, the number of acres of improved...
    239 bytes (6,777 words) - 07:38, 16 December 2021
  • plentiful, and deer and hares common; while bird life includes grouse, ptarmigan, woodcock, snipe, heron, widgeon, teal, eider duck, swan and varieties...
    225 bytes (1,364 words) - 22:19, 19 January 2022
  • first nun to ascent the River. She died on board the Captain's boat. Ptarmigan, and was buried as Sister Ethelbert. The Government map marks a mountain...
    419 bytes (8,193 words) - 07:09, 6 June 2020
  • (Semitic root laban), so called from the snow which covers the highest peaks during almost the entire year, or from the limestone which glistens white...
    11 KB (1,720 words) - 06:19, 22 August 2023
  • of the glacier at this point, I saw and heard a few marmots, and three ptarmigans that were as tame as barnyard fowls. The sod is sloughing off on the edges...
    27 KB (4,994 words) - 10:05, 3 July 2022
  • Squirrels chatter in the tree tops or scamper in the underbrush. The ptarmigan is searching out a place for her new nest. The beaver has come out of...
    266 bytes (2,760 words) - 02:16, 28 February 2024
  • captains who are very princes of good fellows, as Captain Armstrong of the Ptarmigan and Captain Blakeney of the Isabel, with whom we may journey from Golden...
    338 bytes (4,712 words) - 10:06, 7 August 2019
  • Britain where the Alpine Alsine rubella is found, and also for its fauna, ptarmigan being common, and even the wild cat and golden eagle occurring at rare...
    350 bytes (2,564 words) - 16:03, 5 April 2020
  • latitudes, and remain till early autumn, when they leave the country to the ptarmigan, the white hawk, and the arctic owl. The rich berries of the interior...
    21 KB (3,613 words) - 10:28, 21 April 2021
  • and birds; and some of his photographs, especially those showing the ptarmigan in all plumages, are exceedingly beautiful. Professor Cragin, the well-known...
    704 bytes (3,979 words) - 07:03, 8 April 2024
  • wallcreeper (Tichodroma muraria), snow-finch (Montifringilla nivalis) and ptarmigan (Lagopus mutus); the geographical distribution of this last being similar...
    421 bytes (17,003 words) - 20:27, 26 February 2024
  • when we awoke. I think that it was the pangs of hunger that awoke me. Ptarmigan and wild boar fell before my revolver within a dozen moments of my awakening...
    342 bytes (3,802 words) - 07:22, 5 January 2021
  • Chief hare (Lagomys princeps). There are a few birds, among them the ptarmigan (Lagopus leucurus)—a flock may often be seen; the water ousel (Cinclus...
    395 bytes (5,644 words) - 07:01, 6 June 2020
  • right, Doctor,” answered Hatteras; “we'll let them live.” “And these ptarmigan, too, which are flying towards us!” cried Altamont; “and these long legged...
    13 KB (2,328 words) - 01:40, 17 April 2012
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