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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. 



GEOUSE, BLACK. 

 BLACK GAME, OR BLACK COCK, FEMALE GREY HEN* 



TETRAD 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. It is found in 

 Germany, France, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, 

 Norway, and Eussia, 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 



