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THE RED GROUSE. 



Lag6pus scoticus (Latham). 



This species, indigenous only to the British Islands, is our repre- 

 sentative of the Willow-Grouse (Z. albus), the latter inhabiting the 

 northern portions of Europe, Asia and America. In Scotland, 

 from which the Red Grouse derives its specific name, the bird is 

 generally distributed over the moors of the mainland, from the 

 highest point where ling {Calluna) and heath {Erica) flourish, down 

 to the coast-line ; while it also occurs in the Inner and most of 

 the Outer Hebrides, and remarkably fine specimens are produced in 

 the Orkneys. In England the Red Grouse is found from the northern 

 counties — especially Yorkshire and Derbyshire — down the Pennine 



