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dilFcrence in plumage, even during the summer, the fact 

 of the Dal-Ripa being only found in districts more or 

 less wooded, of its frequently perching on trees and 

 hushes which the common grouse is seldom known to 

 do* and other peculiarities too tedious to mention, 

 clearly mark it as a species distinct from the Ti'lnm 

 Scoticm, for which, nevertheless, it has heen mistaken hy 

 more than one English traveller. 



The Scotch Grouse, it should he remarked, is not 

 found in Scandinavia; but strenuous efforts, which it is to 

 be hoped will prove successful, are now being made hy 

 Mr. Oscar Dickson, of Gothenburg, to introduce that bird 

 into Sweden. 



Swedish naturalists tell us the Dal-Ripa is seldom 

 found in large woods, but such is not exactly the fact ; for 

 though doubtless much more plentiful in comparatively 

 open country, such as the higher slopes of the f jails, 

 where there is little besides brushwood, yet to my personal 

 knowledge these birds are pretty common both summer 

 and winter in the great northern forest. 



According to M. Barth, the Dal-Ripa thrives best in 

 localities where woods of large birch trees are interspersed 



K,,I;'IH ' A"" din.'" The Finnish peasants imagine tln-x 'hear ill this ''i A 

 the words "A'"/"'/.. A'-i/'/-," for which iv:i>i>n they jestingly call the Ki|xi 

 liv tin- name of the coin current in Ku^la. ThoHe of Culllirandsdal, in 

 Norway, suppose that the Kijia n-ii-s 7'.i A'-i,-,/." i.e., catch tin- fellow ; 

 anil in H;illin^ilal, " A'rl IM'IT <ln ! A'.i bi !', what do you carry ' 



"The inntance to which yon allude of llr.msi- 'tri-rini;,' " wiit.'s an 

 HO|iiaintiK-f who knows thin liinl well. " mviirrnl in Ayrshin- .sonu- 

 four or five yearn ago. I was driving with a friend, and saw several 

 liinls fei-dini; in the corner of a small enclosure liv the ed^e ot' tin' moor. 

 lUlil other liinls, all red (.'rouse, were in a -mall ash I r.-e close liy. I wailed 

 until (lies.- llew down and fed with the other Kirds, on the corn stnlilile "f 

 the i'in-]..-uie. 'I'll, re was ho |i-siliility of a mistake, as 1 could not lie 

 lifty \.irdsdistaiit. ami I remarked to m\ friend that I had never liefore 

 -een or heard of l!ed tiroiise trei-in-;.' 



