and we sought shelter behind an overhanging ledge. While we were sitting there another ptarmigan came and let in easy range of us We both made a grab for the gun and he flew. I made a sneak on an- other one but it was too far and I didn't get him. Just after I shot another one sailed in and hit on the same rocks that the other one had just left. I shot and wounded this one and got him after a long chase down the mountain side. We went all over the bare places on the summit of the mountain but failed to flush any & altho Hasselborg had seen one the day before. We couldn't find any leucostictes either. We had a hard time getting down and finally came to a cliff and we had to go away around the mountain to get down. On the way back me saw a lot of salamanders breeding in a beaver pond and I took 4 of them along.