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observed that it utters a clear ringing note, as well as the familiar 

 " cok-cok-cok," and feeds upon grain and tender shoots of ling 

 {Calluna) and heather (iiVzca), besides other plants. The nest 

 of moss, grass, and the like is placed amidst heather, and con- 

 tains from six to ten, or even more, yellowish-white eggs, thickly 

 blotched and spotted with fine red-brown, purplish, or black. In 

 England the Eed Grouse is found as far south as Derbyshire and 

 Shropshire, in Wales to Glamorgan ; while unsuccessful attempts 



Fro. 48. — Red Grouse. Laf/opus scofAcvs. y.\. 



have been made to introduce it into Surrey and elsewhere. In 

 Ireland it is rather thinly distributed, but in Scotland it reaches 

 the Orkneys, and an occ;isional brood has been known to be reared 

 in Shetland, where a few ])airs were turned down between 1858 

 and I880. It has also been acclimatized in Southern Sweden. 

 Lagopus allms, the Willow Grouse of Northern Europe, Asia, and 

 America, termed the " Dal-riporre " in Scandinavia, is completely 

 white in winter, except for the lateral rectrices, which are chiefly 

 1)lack; in summer it resembles the lied Grouse, but is distinguished 

 by the white wing-quills. The female is smaller. The habits 



