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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. 

 RED GAME, OR MOOR FOWL. 

 TETEAO SCOTICUS, 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- 



