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have bred on Tyland Farm. It has been found at Cob- 

 ham in Kent. Mr. G. Dowker speaks of the Quail being 

 exceedingly irregular in its visits, and mentions 1863 and 

 1887, evidently exceptional years for it. 



There is a female in the Maidstone Museum, obtained 

 at Hollingbourne in October, 1892, by Colonel Franklyn, 

 and a male obtained at Teston, in Kent, November, 1893, 

 by Colonel Ward. 



FamHy TETRAONID^. 



Genus LAGOPUS, Brisson. 



BED GEOUSE. 



Lagopics scoticus (Latham). Ind. Orn., ii., p. 641 



(1790). 



The Eed Grouse being a resident in the north of 

 England and Scotland, seldom or never makes a passage 

 south. Mr. G. Dowker, however, in his Birds of East 

 Kent, records an instance of its occurrence in the county, 

 and states that " Mr. W. Oxenden Hammond shot a 

 specimen of the Eed Grouse at Knowlton." 



Genus TETRAO, Linnaeus. 



BLACK GEOUSE. 



Tetrao tetrix, Linnaeus. S.N., l, p. 274 (1766). 



The only evidence of a very early existence of the 

 Black Grouse in Kent are the subjoined particulars, 

 culled from the last edition of Yarrell's British Birds, 

 viz.: "Although at the present day the word Grouse, 



