Locality. 
Haunt. 
Nest, &c. 
308 GALLINA. TETRAO. Rep Grovs. 
Poule de Marais Grous, Cuv. Reg. Anim. v. 1. p. 450. 
Tetras rouge, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. v. 1. p. 450. 
Tetrao Saliceti, zestate, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. 1st. ed. only. 
Tetras des Saules, Temm. Pig. et Gall. v. 3. pl. 9. f. 5. 
Red Game, Moor-Cock, Gor-Cock, Rati, Syn. p. 54. A. 3.—Will. aS 
p- 177.—Albin. 1. t. 23. 24. 
~ Red Grous, Br. Zool. 1. No. 94. t. 43.—Lath. Syn. 4. p- 746. 13.—IJd. Sup. 
p- 216.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, t. 135.—Mont. Ornith. Dict.—Jd. Sup.— 
Wale. Syn. 2. t. 183.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, 1. p. t. 301.—Zow’s Faun. Or- 
cad. p. 51. 
This beautiful species, so exclusively British, (as its geo- 
graphical distribution has not been hitherto found to extend 
beyond the limits of these islands), is plentiful in the elevated 
heathy parts of the northern counties of England, and very 
abundant on those wild wastes that occupy so large a share of 
the Highlands of Scotland. It is also scantily met with in 
the mountainous districts of South Wales, and inhabits the 
moors and bogs of Ireland.—'T'racts strictly heathy are the 
situations peculiarly favourable to the nature of this bird; for 
it neither affects the lower, more swampy, and grassy places 
frequented by the black grous, nor does it resort to the high 
stony regions that are the appropriate locality of the ptarmi- 
gan. 
It is monogamous, pairing every spring, and this at a very 
early period, usually during the month of January, but some- 
times, in very mild seasons, even previous to that time. The 
female begins to lay in March or April, placing her nest up- 
on the ground ina tuft of heath. The nest (scarcely de- 
serving that appellation) consists but of a few withered stems, 
that line the shallow cavity wherein the eggs are deposited. 
These are from eight to twelve in number, of a greyish-white, 
blotched with umber-brown. The female only performs the 
office of incubation; the male bird, however, remaining in 
the immediate neighbourhood of the nest, and joming the 
brood as soon as they are excluded ; after which he is as as- 
siduous in his attention to them as the female parent. The 
whole continue united till the great law of nature prompts them, 
on the return of spring, to separate and pair. Where they are 
very numerous, grous often congregate in large packs during 
