Lost British Birds. 
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“ The area now occupied by them,” says Mr. Harvie- 
Brown, ‘'comprises Perthshire—the head-quarters of the 
species—Forfar, Fife, Kinross, Clackmannan, Stirling, and 
Dunbarton; and also the neighbouring portions of Argyle, 
Inverness, Aberdeen, and Kincardine, in the west and north ; 
and the Lothians and south shore of the Firth of Forth 
in the south.” 
The book I quote from contains a map to illustrate the 
Capercaillie’s extension of range in Scotland ; it is spotted 
and blotched with red colour to show the localities where 
the birds have colonized ; and I do not think that anyone 
who admires a bird, and laments the impoverishment of our 
wild bird life, can look on a more beautiful map than this, 
which teaches so hopeful a lesson. It encourages us to 
think that others will arise in the future to emulate Sir 
Fowell Buxton and Lord Breadalbane’s example. There 
are wealthy men among us who spend vast sums of money 
and much time and energy in the pursuit (and extermina¬ 
tion) of the big game of Africa. Surely it would be a 
