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tained, it breeds, eggs having been brought from 
that country. The eggs, which are not quite so 
large as those of the Starling, are four or five in 
number, and of a bluish colour, blotched with 
orange brown. 
GROUSE, “BLACK. 
Buack Game, or Biack Cock, FEMALE Grey Hen. 
TeETRAO TETRIX, Lin. 
This species is more widely dispersed through- 
out the central parts of Europe than any of the 
other varieties of the same tribe. Itis found in 
Germany, France, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, 
Norway, and Russia, where it is very common. 
It abounds throughout the Highlands of Scotland, 
and is also found in some of the Hebrides. In the 
southern parts of England it is confined to a few 
of the wildest uncultivated tracts, such as the New 
Forest in Hampshire, Dartmoor and Sedgemoor in 
Devonshire, and the heaths of Somersetshire. It is 
sparingly met with in Staffordshire and in parts of 
North Wales, but in Northumberland it is very 
abundant. The bases of the hills in heathy and 
mountainous districts, which are covered with a 
natural growth of birch, alder, and willow, and 
intersected by morasses clothed with long and 
