Crossword-Solution: PTARMIGAN 9 letters, 39 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

The white-tailed ptarmigan lives on the lofty snow peaks above the timber, and the prairie chicken and sage cock on the broad Columbia plains from the Cascade Range back to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.

From thence King Hakon proceeded up the Dovrefield; but as he was going over the mountains he rode all day after a ptarmigan, which flew up beside him, and in this chase a sickness overfell him, which ended in his death; and he died on the mountains.

Though we did not eat the entire boar, we made a very large hole in him, while the ptarmigan was but a mouthful.

And always the ptarmigan rose, whirring, before him, till their ker--ker--ker became a mock to him, and he cursed them and cried aloud at them with their own cry.

What rollicking laughter and fun, while they bundled one another in scarfs, cardigan-jackets, fur-lined top-boots, and overcoats! “You had better take your guns along, boys,” said the father, as they stormed out through the front door; “you might strike a couple of ptarmigan, or a mountain-cock, over on the west side.” “I am going to take your rifle, if you’ll let me,” Ralph exclaimed.