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In Wales the Black Grouse has been introduced 

 in Carnarvonshire at Vaynol, in Merionethshire at 

 Bala, in Montgomeryshire north of Lake Vyrnwy, 

 and in Pembrokeshire at Trecwm. In Cardigan- 

 shire it is probably now extinct (ZooL, 1895, p. 

 183). In Glamorganshire, where once common, now 

 extinct ; in Breconshire fairly plentiful near Tre- 

 castle, on the properties of the Marquis of Cam- 

 den, Lord Tredegar, Lord Glenusk, and Mr. Williams 

 Vaughan. The Welsh call it Ceiliog du, black 

 cock, and Ceiliog-ij-myyiydd, cock of the hill. 



In Ireland the Black Grouse is not found natu- 

 rally, and it is still doubtful whether it ever 

 existed there except as an introduced species. 

 Pocock in his "Tour in Ireland," 1752, stated that 

 in Co. Antrim some had been brought over by 

 Lord Antrim from Scotland. Pennant in 1812 

 [Brit. ZooL, i. p. 353) asserted that some had 

 been shot in Co. Sligo, where the species had 

 been formerly introduced from Scotland. A few 

 were turned out at Claggan by Lord O'Neill in 

 1829; at Glenarm by Lord Antrim in 1839, and 

 others about the same time at Tollymore, Co. 

 Down, and Courtown, Co. Dublin, Col. Cooper of 

 Markree Castle, Co. Sligo, made several attempts 

 to establish Black-game in his neighbourhood by 

 importing birds from Norway, but they eventually 

 disappeared. 



In Tlie Irish Naturalist, Feb. 1899, Mr. G. H. 

 Barrett-Hamilton has summarised the results of 

 these and other experiments, adding that in the 



