LOCAL CONDITIONS AND HEALTH OF GROUSE 305 



PART II. 



SERIES OF MAPS SHOWING THE INCIDENCE OF " GROUSE DISEASE " 

 IN FORMER YEARS. 



The following series of maps has been prepared to show 

 the localities in which " Grouse Disease " has occurred during 

 the last thirty-nine years, and the local distribution of the 

 various outbreaks. 



1872 



1873 



Scotland alone has been dealt with, for the information 

 obtained from that country on the subject of " Grouse 

 Disease" has always been fuller and more accurate than from 

 England. 



The series of maps commences with the year 1872, which, 

 with 1878, will always be notorious as the date of one of the most 

 severe and widespread epidemics of " Grouse Disease " ever 

 known. An endeavour was made to go back to 1867, the year 



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