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Red Game, Moorcock, Gorcock. Rail Syn. p. 54. A. 3. 

 Eed Grous. Br. ZooL 1. N° 94. t. 43.— Lath. Gen. Syn. IV. 

 p. 746. 13.— Id. Suppl. p. 216. 



The Red Grous inhabits the heaths of Wales and Scotland,, the 

 latter chiefly, for they have become rather fcarce for fome years 

 part upon the Cambrian heaths ; and are found principally now among 

 the more mountainous parts, as Merionethihire and Caernarvon- 

 Iliire. 



The male is rather larger and more robuft than the female ; its 

 length about fifteen inches and a half. The plumage of the male a 

 rich reddilh brown, fomewhat rufous, and glolfed with purple ; and 

 the whole very elegantly filiated tranfverfely with black lines difpofed 

 in fcallops, and nearly equidiftant. The female inclines to a yellower 

 hue* 



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