38 Among the Birds in Northern Shires. 



cially they abound with interest to the ornithologist. 

 The lover of birds, however, will in many, if not in 

 most cases, find that his quest for knowledge is 

 hampered by not a few restrictions. Almost every- 

 where these moors are jealously guarded from the 

 intrusion of strangers, however harmless they may 



The Red Grouse. 



be. Keepers are ever on the look-out to warn 

 intruders off the sacred breeding grounds of the Red 

 Grouse; the hillsides and plains are systematically 

 swept by the keeper's telescope in quest of tres- 

 passers; innumerable notice-boards threaten the 

 innocent wayfarer with all tlie rigours of the law 

 should he chance to -wander from the scarcely 

 discernible f(>otpath or the public highway. To 

 ornithologize in comfort one must make our peace — 



