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Distribution in the British Islands. — The British race 

 oE the Black Gronse is a Resident, and is generally 

 distributed in Scotland and on some of the Inner Heb- 

 rides, but does not occur in the Shetland and Orkney 

 Islands or in the Outer Hebrides and Ireland. In the 

 northern counties of England it is still tolerably numerous, 

 and occurs locally in the wilder parts of the midlands as 

 far south as Derbyshire, parts of Staffordshire, and Here- 

 fordshire ; while in Shropshire, many parts of Wales, 

 Somersetshire, and north Devonshire varying numbers are 

 still met with. In Cornwall, south Devonshire, Dorsetshire, 

 and Wiltshire it has become very scarce, and in other 

 southern counties where it formerly flourished it is now 

 extinct or nearly so. Though reintroduced in various parts, 

 nntably in Bedfordshire (continental birds) and Norfolk, it 

 does not seem likely to re-establish itself permanently. 



General Distribution. — The typical race L. tetrix, in which 

 the female is somewhat different from that of the British 

 race, inhabits Scandinavia up to about 69° N. latitude and 

 western Russia, and ranges south to Switzerland and the 

 Apennines. The birds found in south-east Russia to the 

 Tian Shan Mountains have been separated as L. t. viridanus. 

 In nor til Mongolia and Manchuria it is represented by 

 ■L. t.mongolicus. In the Cuucasus Mountains a very distinct 

 species, L. mlokosiewiczi, occurs. 



Genus LAGOPUS Brisson, Orn. i. 1760, p. 181. 

 Type : L. lagopus (Linn.). 



Li'igdpus =^ \ayw7rous, rough-footed like a hare ; from \ayios and irotis. 



Lagopus scoticus. Eed Gkouse. 



Tetrao scoticus Latham, Gen. Synop. Suppl. i. 1787, 

 p. 290 : Yorkshire. 



Lagopus scoticus (Lath.) ; B. O. JJ. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 144 ; 

 Ogilvie- Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxii. 1893, p. 35 ; Saunders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 495. 

 Scoticus = of Scotland, where this species was particularly plentiful. 



