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Red Grouse. 



congener, will frequent precisely the same expanse of 

 ground from one Midsummer Day to another, unless ousted 

 by sportsmen or other irresistible cause, and the mere 

 shooting of some members of a brood will not create any 

 impulse to migration in the remainder. This matter of 

 migration must, however, receive attention at a later period. 

 Not much, perhaps, would be gained by going further 

 into the natural history of this member of the 

 Tetraonidce here. As was said before, a real insight into 

 its mode of life and idiosyncrasies is only obtainable by 

 personal observation in its moorland haunts. 



