Bird Of Brilliant Plumage

There are few birds whose plumage is so variabe as the ptarmigan. Toree times in the year lts plumage changes; it has separate coats for spring, autumn and winter. At the beginning of November it puts on the !at costume of the season. lts spring brown and summer gray serve well to hide it among the scanty herbage of its haunts from the keen eye of the soaring falcon.