QUAIL— RED GROUSE. 
26P, 
and one caught there on December 12th, 1892. 
(Stares, "Zoologist," 1893.) 
One shot on Portsdown Hill on November 6th, 1897. 
("Zoologist," 1898.) 
F A M I L Y — Tetraon ida. 
\Qi^^\}^—Lagopus. 
Lagopus scoticus. Red Grouse. 
Miss Rose Kingsley sent the following interesting note 
to the " Standard " on January i8th, 1899 : — 
" After reading your article to-day on the naturalization 
of the red grouse, allow me to give a reason (pointed out 
to me in childhood by my father, Charles Kingsley) why 
the grouse is absent from the southern moors of Hampshire 
and Berkshire. It does not depend upon * open moors 
or the slopes of mountainous hills overgrown with heather 
or ling, together with heaths and bracken fern,' else it 
would flourish in North Hants and South Berks. 
"The late Prince Consort introduced the red grouse 
into those outlying portions of ancient Wolmer Forest 
round Swinley, Easthamstead, Bagshot, and the adjoining 
well-known fighting ground of Hartfordbridge Flats, over 
Eversley. But in all these localities the one thing needful 
is lacking, that undergrowth of berry-bearing myrtacecB on 
which the red grouse chiefly feeds. Hence the gradual 
and complete extinction of the birds in this district."] 
