GEOUSE 



' HERE THEY COJIE. 



Grouse have proved tlie greatest success of all birds of 

 tlie cliase, and their steady increase during the past fifty 

 years is an achievement of which the game preservers 

 may well be proud. A careful study of the bird's habits 

 and requirements has shown the sportsman what may be 

 done in the course of a few years to further the increase 

 of his stock by good watching, vermin-trapping, and 

 judicious heather-burning. The care bestowed on High- 

 land moors during the last fifty years, with these 

 necessary precautions, has made all the difference in 

 changing desolate tracts of boggy moorland, on which a 



