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observed that it utters a clear ringing note, as well as the familar 
“cok-cok-cok,” and feeds upon grain and tender shoots of ling 
(Calluna) and heather (£7vica), besides other plants. The nest 
of moss, grass, and the lke 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 Red Grouse is found as far south as Derbyshire and 
Shropshire, in Wales to Glamorgan; while unsuccessful attempts 
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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 occasional brood has been known to be reared 
in Shetland, where a few pairs were turned down between 1858 
and 1883. It has also been acclimatized in Southern Sweden. 
Lagopus albus, 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 
black; in summer it resembles the Red Grouse, but is distinguished 
by the white wing-quills. The female is smaller. The habits 
