74 THE HAZEL GROUSE 



I was the more impelled to notice the 

 paragraph above quoted because I, myself, 

 had so recently made the same remark, i.e. 

 suggested the acclimatisation of the bird, 

 not. Indeed, In Scotland only, but through- 

 out the British Islands, In my book. In tJie 

 Land of the Bora ; but when the writer 

 goes on to suggest that " the common 

 grouse (a very wrong name, by the way, 

 to give Lagopus Scotictis) and black-game 

 may be rivalled on their own moors by 

 their Scandinavian cousin," he does, Indeed, 

 give himself away. The very name he 

 uses — "hazel hen" — might have taught 

 him that the species under consideration 

 Is not a moorland bird. 



In case he may retort upon me by saying 

 I am not acquainted with the bird in 

 Norway, I propose to quote two sports- 



