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has h6m speatihg, the ptarmlgiSi: 
Biay r®|i:sr 4 «l -at tv ,#|m^cksT represented by slightly,^ 
mryiaglbfrisr«» It is quite certain, feoweyer;^^ 
that mmt- mi Jtrctlc America? are - based on 
that the great variability of the 
'■»’ cr in Scandina-via, has not been did; 
4^^ as rfdgwayi itom tha|; 
, m^ts/hlch the male in snmmer'-plumage is nearly 
’'^iB br»E^ast, can be matched exactly by some specimeijyl;^ 
^ tlie same season*. In Spitsbergen a larger and appar *^^^ 
ik'wm {h. hypirbmeus) occurs with more white on the. basal 'V 
#1 i^i2|4^atlset'a;, but very few examples have -at present b^n 
m tks British ,hies.--^h& range, of the ptarmigan in the British 
,lsl<w is now confined to the higher mowntains of Scotland* from Berth-* 
tthlre aT?.d Aa"gyilt.?bire northwards,, wherever suitable stony and , barren 
plateaux <d sutRcient elevation,- studded with, rock® and boulders., are 
to he found* It was formerly met with on the highest hills of Dum- 
frfes,-sMre and Galloway, bnt disappeared about.’ 18'22, and a subsequent 
sttom.pt to re-stock that district proved unsuccessM. it still lingers in'-’ 
krrm ■a.nd Rum, where it has been re-introduced, also in Mull, Islay '. 
while in Skye it te found in s.ra.fiM numbers. It does not extend " 
and Sheihmd Islands, but la said to have occurred in small- 
mimalmM of Hoy iOitkmy&), up till IS31, From Lewis, Harris- 
amd It to, fenvip airnost disappeared ‘during - 
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Thcr^ MmnM for «|^^possng that nhe ptarmigan '■ 
existed % MU of Cpmbortad a.nd Westmoreland* ;; 
.Macpherson in Mi.'' give® his reasons for 'believing^ ^ 
that the spedes w«' mnuttmim about Keswdck till the 
end of the eighteenth w^^migan •“■ said to have been killed^ 
OB Skiddaw-,!’ was S'tilii 
"%S ,fc:tton’® ioeal' museum at Keswick 
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to. 1841 , but w"hen the up in 18 #.^ the specimen waa 
lost sight of. . "''i-d. '■*, , 
On the mountains- of to ^introduce; , 
have .not met with success, . -. ' 
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and cmwhmy Mmes of, dwarf sa!ioW:;an 4 'j 
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