THE PTARMIGAN 129 



by Scotch keepers. Still I think that, considering that 

 many of the hills in the district are over 2500 feet in 

 height, it is extremely probable that Ptarmigan did 

 actually inhabit them, and that they have shared the 

 fate of the beautiful and confiding Dotterel which has, 

 too, been banished from the district. 



