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beautifully adapted to the ‘^circumstances of their 
existence.” 
The Hazel Grouse, which, in the absence from my 
list of the genus Phasianus, claims my first notice, 
is an inhabitant of many of the heathery or woody 
mountains and plains of Europe. It occurs in the 
north of Sweden and Xorway, Switzerland, Germany, 
France, Italy, the Alps, Savoy, Verona, the Tyi'ol 
and Siberia as far as the Eiver Lena. In France it 
is especially found among the Pyrenees, the mountains 
of the Vosges, the Dauphine, and the Ardennes. It 
does not occur in Greece or Holland, and is not 
noticed in Dr. Machado’s list of the birds of Andalusia. 
Dr. Schrenck includes it in the birds of Amoor Land. 
]\Ir. Wheelwright, of Gadsjo, in Sweden, living in 
the land of Grouse, has obligingly favoured me with 
some notes about this and the next species, for which 
I have to tender him my thanks; such information, 
coming from the fountain head, always being most 
acceptable. 
“The Hjerpe has never been met with in the south 
of Sweden, but is found in the woods of Dahl and 
in the south-Avest coast of Bohns Land. It is tolerably 
common in Oster Gothland. It is rare around Stock- 
holm, but common in the more northerly parts; 
(Xilsson remarks that this appears the more strange 
since the same bird comes in niimbers into Germany, 
and even France. He thinks that if it Avere introduced 
it Avould thrive in the rocky Avooded tracts of North 
Scania.) 
“The Hazel Grouse does not go so high up the 
fell sides as the Capercaillie or Black Grouse, and it 
disappears from the NorAvegian fells long before we 
haA'e reached the limits of the frost. According to 
