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coarse herbage, as well as the deep and wooded 
glens so frequently occurring in such extensive 
wastes, are the situations best suited to the habits 
of these birds, and most favourable to their in- 
crease. ‘The nest is merely composed of a- few 
dried stems of grass, placed on the ground under 
the shelter of a tall tuft or low bush, and generally 
in marshy spots where long and coarse grasses 
abound. The female deposits her eggs in May. 
They are from six to ten in number, and are of 
a yellowish grey colour, blotched with reddish 
brown. 
GROUSE, RED: 
Rep Game, or Moor Fowt. 
Trerrao- scoricus, Penn. 
This beautiful species, so exclusively British (as 
its geographical distribution has not been hitherto 
found to extend beyond the limits of these islands), 
is plentiful in the elevated heathy parts of the 
northern counties of England, and very abundant 
on those wild wastes that occupy so large a por- 
tion of the Highlands of Scotland. It is also scan- 
tily met with in the mountainous districts of South 
Wales, and inhabits the moors and bogs of Ireland. 
Heathy tracts are the situations peculiarly favour- 
