BLACK GROUSE. 
TETRAO TETRIX, Linn. 
Tetrao tetrix, Linn. 8. N.i. p. 274 (1766) ; Naum. vi. p. 324; 
Macg. i. p. 145 ; Hewitson, i. p. 278; Yarr. ed. 4, iii. 
p. 60; Dresser, vii. p. 205. 
Coq de bruyére, Faisan, French ; Birkhahn, German ; Cua 
furcada, Catalan. 
This fine and well-known species is resident and more 
or less common in most of the Scottish and many of 
our English counties, but from all accounts is gradually 
decreasing in numbers in all localities. It is not found 
in Ireland, and it appears that the many attempts made 
to establish Black-game in that country have hitherto 
resulted in failure. On the content of Europe this 
bird has a wide range, extending, according to the 4th 
edition of Yarrell’s ‘ British Birds,’ from 69° N. lat. to 
the Apennines, and from South Holland to the Volga. 
I never met with it in Spain, but have good reason to 
believe that it is found on the Spanish side of the 
Pyrenees in Catalonia. I could hear nothing of it in 
the Cantabrian mountains, where the Capercaillie is 
well known. 
