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RED GROUSE. 



GOB-COCK. HOOE-COCK. MOOB-FOWL. MUIB-FOWL. 



Lagopus Scoticus, VlELLOT. 



Tetrao Scoticus, LATHAM. 



Lagopus. Lagos A hare. POMS A foot. Scoticus Scotch. 



THE hardy Grouse, coeval with the Ancient British of these 

 islands, is alone to be met with here. It is a native of various 

 parts of England and Wales, hut is, as indicated by its specific 

 name, especially abundant in Scotland, not only in the north, 

 in Sutherlandshire and Rosshire, but on the Grampian central 

 ranges, and in the south on the Pentland Hills, the Lammer- 

 muir, immortalized by Sir Walter Scott for the fatal bridal, 

 and the mountains of Peeblesshire, Selkirkshire, and Dumfries- 

 shire. In the Hebrides it is likewise plentiful, and in Orkney 

 it is found in various parts of the mainland, in Hoy, Waas, 

 Ronsay, and Eday. In Ireland it is met with in most 

 suitable localities. 



The red bird, like the Red Indian, gives way before the in- 

 roads of cultivation, and flourishes only where nature is yet 

 to be seen in her primitive aspect. Attempts have been made 

 to re-establish the Ancient Briton in Devonshire Dorsetshire, 

 Sussex, and Surrey, but in vain; aboriginal inhabitants, like 

 my own ancestors in ages long gone by, before Roman, Saxon, 

 Dane, or Norman had set foot on the soil, when once driven 

 into the fastnesses of Wales and the wild districts of the country, 

 there alone they can yet maintain their tribe. 



H. R. H. the Duke of Gloucester turned out eight brace 

 and a half on Bagshot Heath in 1829, but, excepting two 

 killed two years afterwards on Cobham Heath, nothing more 

 was seen of them, though every precaution had been taken to 



