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vers ? Depend upon it that this is the only plan 

 to adopt. No one has a better chance of procur- 

 ing eggs and birds than myself; and, as I have 

 over and over again stated, I should be most will- 

 ing to help the Acclimatization Society as far as 

 possible, but my time is too much occupied, and I 

 will never undertake a thing unless I can carry it 

 through. Moreover, I am never at home in the 

 breeding season. One thing must be borne in mind, 

 that the willow grouse will never thrive in flat 

 forests away from the fells, for the low forests on 

 the sides and at the foot of the fells are as much 

 the true home of this bird as the snow-capped fells 

 are of the ptarmigan. As to the hazel grouse, 

 they come much further south away from the fells 

 than the willow grouse, although in the Quickiock 

 district they seem to frequent the same forests as 

 the willow grouse, but never so far up on the fell 

 sides ; but it is strange that although known in 

 Germany," the hazel grouse is a stranger in the 

 south of Sweden. I think one thing is pretty 

 clear, that young fir plantings are not suited to 

 the habits of the "hjerpe," but old fir forests, 

 in which there is much rotten timber and many 

 stony rises. 



No disease appears as yet to have ever been 

 known among the northern grouse. 



Although the willow grouse will occasionally 



