202 RED GROUSE. 



coverts were of a bluish grey east, as was the lower part 

 of the breast: it was a young bird. Individuals are met 

 with more or less variegated with white; others pale greyish 

 yellow, faintly mottled with dusky: one mottled with brown 

 and white was shot by Lord Stanley. Some birds are very 

 dark, some have the quill feathers entirely or partly white. 

 Sir William Jardine mentions one in which the quills were 

 dull white, the ground colour yellowish white, the dark 

 markings on it pale reddish brown. 



