is not met with in any other country. It has been turned out 
in feveral parts of Surrey, Suffex, and Hampfhire, but wc 
believe has not been known to breed. 
This fpecies always reforts to open traas of country, and 
does not frequent woods ; it feeds on the various kinds of 
mountain and bog-berries, and on the tops of heath, which 
(though we have examined many) we never found in the crop 
otherwife than perfedly dry. It lays ten or twelve dufky 
white eggs, fpotted with ruft colour ; the young run as foon 
as excluded, and keep together till the enfuing fpring ^ in the 
winter feveral broods alTociate together, frequently to the 
' number of forty or fifty, when one bird conftantly is on 
the watch ; they are at this feafon very Ihy and difficult of 
approach. 
During the winter, when the ground is covered with fnow, 
they generally perch on the walls, with which the cultivated 
land in the north of JEngland is enclofed. 
Provincial names Moorcock, Gorcock, and Red-Gamc, 
