Obs. [a. L. lagōpūs, Gr. λαγώπους, f. λαγώς hare + πούς foot.] A bird with a foot resembling that of a hare; the ptarmigan.
1693. Sir T. P. Blount, Nat. Hist., 385. Some … Birds … live upon the highest tops of the Alps, and that all the winter too … as … the Lagopus among birds.
1773. Barrington, in Phil. Trans., LXIII. 224. The Lagopus, of which M. de Buffon gives an engraving, is in its winter plumage.
