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and scientific work in the laboratory. 

 While it contains much interesting matter 

 and fresh facts relating to the life- 

 history and natural history of the red 

 grouse, the final report, the appearance 

 of which is so eagerly awaited, will not 

 only present a digest of the collected 

 observations and inquiries of the Com- 

 mittee over the more extended period, 

 but will present the matured opinions 

 and definite conclusions which have been 

 arrived at after long, full, and patient 

 study of the whole matter. There is 

 great reason to believe that the results 

 of these expert labours will throw much 

 light on this hitherto obscure subject, and 

 will prove very valuable. Here again it 

 is regretted that, as these lines will appear 

 before this important report, only an 

 anticipatory and doubtless inadequate 

 notice of it is at the present time possible. 

 We are not, however, left entirely to 

 conjecture as to the coming report. 

 While the Committee are, it is believed, 

 satisfied that grouse suffer and die from 



