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netting, with canvas overhead, provided plentifully with water and buckwheat, 

 and with the wire-netting stuck full of sprigs of heather, partly so that they 

 might feel themselves more hidden, but chiefly because I understand that 

 heather-tops are their chief source of nourishment. After a few days' rest, 

 I had one of the sides of the enclosure raised, so that the Grouse might go 

 out of their own accord. In the spring of 1893, I was rewarded by coming 

 across the cock grouse in the company of a black cock on my preserve and 

 had the pleasure of listening to his call. It also came to my knowledge 

 that the hen was alive, and that she had incubated for about fourteen days, 

 though too late in the year, for it was during the harvesting of the buck- 

 wheat that she was disturbed by the mowers. The cock and hen both flew 

 away, and the hen, alas ! never sought her nest again. The eggs, fourteen 

 in number, I have preserved. This delightful discovery, that a pair of 

 Grouse had lived all but two years on my property, and had even made a 

 good attempt to rear a brood, made me resolve to go on with my experiments. 

 The dealer to whom I addressed myself undertook, for twenty marks the 

 pair, to deliver ten brace of Grouse to me, and we came to an understanding 

 that he should send them at my cost from Hull to Bremen, that he should 

 undertake their being carefully secured in boxes made expressly for the 

 purpose, and that he should not be bound to make good any losses that 

 might occur. Messrs. Weltmann, in Hull, who forward goods for the North 

 German Lloyd's Company, kindly undertook the delivery of them, and 

 promised to see that they did not want for food or water on their thirty- 

 hours' sea voyage, and thus, to my joy, my gamekeeper, whom I had sent 

 to Bremen to fetch the birds, was euabled to deliver to me the whole lot of 

 seven brace (more were not to be had at the time), without loss or damage. 

 The birds this time flew strongly when let out in their enclosure, but did 

 not hurt themselves, owing to the canvas spread over the top. My sporting 

 neighbours all belong to the Prussian and Oldenburg Forest and Moor 

 Game Preservation Societies, to both of which I successfully applied, and 

 they have, as before on the introduction of black-game, promised that for 

 some years to come the protection of these Grouse shall be looked upon by 

 them as a strict duty. So it is to be hoped that this attempt to naturalise 

 them in the plains of North- West Germany may succeed, as it did with the 

 black game, which had for many a long year been extinct there." 



Notes from Greenland.— During a short sojourn, in January, 1893, 

 in Copenhagen, I visited the Zoological Museum of that town, and noted 

 some new acquisitions from Greenland, As ' The Zoologist ' contains an 

 extended report of my little book, ■ The Birds of Greenland,' I think the 

 readers will like a short record of the novelties I saw. The most recent 

 acquisition of the Museum was a collection of bird-skins from Eastern 

 Greenland north of 65° N. lat., collected by the Danish Expedition, which 

 had recently returned from these tracts. I hope that eventually we may 



