PLAN SUGGESTED. 



which, from their peculiar situation and the 

 present depreciated state of all farming produce, 

 are not likely, at least for many years, to be 

 absorbed in the surrounding tillage. Many of 

 these are intersected by clear streams, and broken 

 here and there with clumps and plantations of 

 alder, birch, hollies and fir trees, and adjoin, 

 or are included in, the manorial rights of exten- 

 sive neighbouring preserves. Pheasants, par- 

 tridges, a few snipes, and even woodcocks, are 

 found during different periods of the shooting 

 season ; but the black grouse is unknown. 

 Doubtless he was here the representative of the 

 tetraonidte in former days, but the very memory 

 of his existence has since faded away. Now, 

 reasoning from analogy, it has often struck me 

 that he might without much difficulty be re- 

 stored or introduced into these beautiful wastes 

 by simply reversing the process that has already 

 in the case to which I have alluded proved 

 successful in the North with the pheasant. The 

 food of the two species,- if not identical, is yet 

 sufficiently alike to render any objection on that 

 score unreasonable. The eggs are nearly of the 

 same size, and require about the same period 

 for incubation. Both birds are polygamous, and 

 so far from evincing any hostility to each other, 

 there are numerous instances of hybrids having 



