and perhaps to changes of management which would greatly reduce the death rate, both of sheep and deer. It seems that burning considerable tracts of heather greatly checks parasitic mischief, but there is a limit to this remedy, because there is hardly any winter feeding for the first winter on burnt ground. We have a good deal of ground grassy flats, with heather inter- mixed that ought to be burnt in rotation once in three years. Good judgment in burning, and in abstaining from it, is essential to success in this Forest. Far more ground requires burning here than in Ross-shire. We did not find this out at first, and we were told at first that the ground had been too much burnt OO 00 OO OO oo oo 00 00 oo oo oo oo oo oo 00 OO 00 OO 00 VO