TETRAONIDA. 495 
THE RED GROUSE. 
Lacopus scéticus (Latham). 
This species, indigenous only to the British Islands, is our repre- 
sentative of the Willow-Grouse (Z. a/éus), the latter inhabiting the 
northern portions of Europe, Asia and America. In Scotland, 
from which the Red Grouse derives its specific name, the bird is 
generally distributed over the moors of the mainland, from the 
highest point where ling (Ca//una) and heath (Z7ica) flourish, down 
to the coast-line ; while it also occurs in the Inner and most of 
the Outer Hebrides, and remarkably fine specimens are produced in 
the Orkneys. In England the Red Grouse is found from the northern 
counties—especially Yorkshire and Derbyshire—down the Pennine 
