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Order XI 



are similar to those of the Capercaillie, but smaller. 

 Hybrids of the two are occasionally found. Our form 

 is said to be peculiar to Britain. The typical form 

 occurs only in Europe. 



The Red Grouse (Lag opus scoticus), our familiar 

 red-brown game-bird, which is not uncommonly much 



Red Grouse 



blacker or more varied with white than the most 

 typical specimens, is what is termed " endemic," that 

 is to say confined to this country. Its moorland 

 haunts are known to us all, and in its choice of a 

 residence it thus differs from the Willow Grouse of the 

 north of the Old World, which is more partial to 



