442 Alexander Goodman More Scientific Papers. 



LAGOPUS ALBUS (Boie). Ptarmigan. 



Provinces [VII. ?] [XII.] XIV. ? XV.-XVIII. 

 Subprovinces (18 ?), (25), 28 ?, 29, 32-36, (37). 

 Lat. 55-59. " Highland" type. Not in Ireland. 



At present the Ptarmigan is confined to Scotland, though there are 

 records of its having formerly inhabited Westmoreland and Cumberland. 

 (See Pennant and other earlier writers.) 



Heysham describes the Ptarmigan as having become, in his time, very 

 scarce in Cumberland ; and he cites "the lofty mountains about Keswick'' 

 as the only locality known to him. 



There is a tradition of its former existence in Wales, but I have not 

 been able to discover the original authority for this statement, which is 

 repeated by both Macgillivray and Thompson, and in Graves's ' British 

 Ornithology.' 



My valued correspondent, Dr. J. A. Smith of Edinburgh, has copied for 

 me, from a newspaper, a paragraph stating that the Ptarmigan inhabits 

 the county of Peebles ; but this is the only authority for its occurrence so 

 far south on the mainland at present. The bird inhabits Islay and Jura 

 (Thompson, ' B. Brit.' ii. 45), Mull (Mr. H. D. Graham}, Dumbarton 

 (Mr. R. Gray}, Argyle, Perth, and all the counties northward. Mr. John 

 Macgillivray found the Ptarmigan sparingly in South Uist, and it has 

 only recently been exterminated in Hoy. 



PERDIX CINEREA (Lath.\ Common Partridge. 

 Provinces I. -XVII. 

 Subprovinces 1-35. 

 Lat. 50-59. " British" type, or general. 



Throughout Great Britain, being only less common where the land 

 has not been brought into cultivation. 



The Partridge is probably a colonist in the northern portion of its 

 present range, having followed the progress of tillage. 



Messrs. Baikie and Heddle inform us that it has been, within a few 

 years, successfully introduced into the islands of Rousay and Shapinshay, 

 in Orkney. 



CACCABIS RUFA (G. R. Gray]. Red-legged Partridge. 



Provinces III. IV. VIII. X. XII. 



Subprovinces 7, 8-12, 13 ?, 19, 20, 23, 25. 



Lat. 50-55. Not native. " Germanic" type. Not in Ireland. 



Introduced about one hundred years ago, the Red-legged Partridge 

 has become very numerous in some of the eastern counties, where, in the 

 struggle for life, it has been stated to have in some places nearly sup- 

 planted the Common Grey Partridge. 



There must be some local influences that limit the range of the Red- 

 legged Partridge in this country, since the attempts made to establish it 



