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ABOUT THE MOOR-FOWL. 
And again : — 
" The heather was bloomin', the meadows were mawn. 
Our lads gaed a-hunting one day at the dawn. 
O'er moors and o'er mosses, and many a glen ; 
At length they discovered a bonny moor-hen. 
I rede you beware at the hunting, young men, 
I rede you beware at the hunting, young men ; 
Take some on the wing, and some on the spring. 
But cannily steal on a bonny moor-hen." 
The red grouse, or moor-fowl {Tetrao Scoticus), is found in Ireland, 
among the Welsh mountains, in Northumberland and Cumberland, but 
chiefly in Scotland. When full-grown, the cock is clothed in a rich dark 
brown plumage, streaked and mottled and relieved with various lighter 
tints, except on the belly, where the brown deepens almost into black. 
The legs are purely or nearly white ; and over each eye is a scarlet 
patch or spot, the distinctive mark, it may be said, of the grouse family. 
The colouring of the female is somewhat paler. The moor-fowl feed 
on berries, and the sprays of heather, and other moorland plants, — occa- 
sionally visiting the farmer's stacks, or the corn-field, if such lie near 
their haunts. 
Among the Alpine and the Pyrenean heights, and in the moun- 
tains of the North, the Alp grouse makes his home; with plumage 
