On Mountain and Loch. 91 



quest for its feathers, which are used to make trout 

 and salmon flies. Although becoming rarer, it still 

 breeds on some of the mountains of Cumberland; 



The Dotterel. 



whilst across the Border it is more numerous, and 

 we believe regularly nests on the Grampians and in 

 a few other places. It is late to arrive on these 

 mountains in spring, as might naturally be inferred, 

 when we bear in mind their bleak and barren char- 

 acter, reaching them in May, and quitting them in 

 September. We have seen eggs of the Dotterel 

 that had been taken on the Cumberland mountains 



