236 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Family Trrraonip™. 
Lagopus scoticus (Latham). Red Grouse.—Formerly occurred, 
not now found in the county. The Rev. Churchill Babington (see 
Potter) says, ‘‘A brood at Tin Meadows, twenty years ago, some 
of which were shot by Mr. Grundy, when in search of Black 
Game. Since then Mr. Gisborne attempted to introduce the 
bird from Scotland and the Derbyshire Moors, but without 
success, it being unable to bear the dust of the journey, as the 
gamekeeper thought.” The Rev. J. C. Davenport shot one at 
Skeffington in the winter of 1860, while feeding on some hips on 
a hedge. I saw a mounted specimen at Noseley, which had been 
shot there some years ago, whilst sitting on a whitethorn eating 
the haws, by Sir Arthur Hazlerigg; it had been ee 
observed sitting on the top of a large ash tree! 
Tetrao tetriz, Linn. Black Grouse.—No longer met with in 
the county. The Rey. Churchill Babington, writing in Potter’s 
‘Charnwood Forest,’ refers to it as formerly occurring in Charn- 
wood Heath, Sharpley, &c., in tolerable numbers, but then nearly 
extinct. Harley also met with it in Charnwood Forest, where it 
used to breed annually, though in diminished numbers, since the 
ancient forest existed only in small patches of a few hundred acres 
in extent, consequently the range of the Black Grouse was con- 
siderably narrowed. On the flanks of the wild hills outlying the 
lordship of Whitwick there remained a few birds still protected. 
He appears to have last seen it in the spring of 1850. The late 
Mr. Alfred Ellis, in his ‘ Notes about Birds,’ published for private 
circulation in 1868, wrote that ‘‘ some years since”’ he had shot 
several, with Mr. Gisborne, near to the Monastery on the Forest. 
Mr. J. B. Ellis writes, ‘‘ Now extinct; used to live in large woods 
by Benscliff.” Sir G. Beaumont wrote to Mr. Macaulay that he 
remembered killing Black Game on Charnwood Forest about 
1847 or 1848, and during the next ten years he shot several 
“‘Grey Hens” in South Wood, near Coleorton. Lord Gains- 
borough writes that Mr. G. H. Finch, of Burley-on-the-Hill, 
recollects a ‘‘Grey Hen” being shot in Burley Wood in 
November, 1856. 
Order Funicarim.—Family Rauuips. 
Rallus aquaticus, Linn. Water Rail.—Generally distributed, 
and probably breeding. The Rev. Churchill Babington (see 
