PTARMIGAN 



Ptaemigax are found in considerable numbers amongst 

 the rocks and stones that crown the summits of nearly all 

 the hills aVjove 1500 feet in the deer forests of Koss-shire, 

 Sutherland, Inverness-shire, Aberdeenshire, and Perthshire, 

 whilst most of the other counties north of Forfarshire on 

 the east and Argyllshire on the west contain mountains 

 on which they exist, and they also occur in many of the 

 Western Isles. The species is not now found further 

 north than CViithness, thouoh, until quite recently, there 



