RED GROUSE 191 
England. Mr. Oldham heard Quails in Anglesea in 1904. 
It has bred sporadically in Shetland, Orkney, Lewis, and 
North Uist, It is mostly a summer migrant in Britain, its 
distribution being sporadic and uncertain. 
LAGOPUS SCOTICUS (Latham). 
RED GROUSE. 
Manx, Ke/lagh ruy=Red Cock; Kiark freoaie=Heath Hen 
(M.S. D.). (Cf. Sc. Gaelic, Ceare Fhratoch, Coilleach-Ruadh ; 
Trish, Cearc fraoich.) 
The statement in the Denton MS. (1681), ‘They (the 
Manx) have store of moor-game both gor and gray, can 
hardly have been correct. Sacheverell (1693) distinctly 
states that there were then no ‘heath game’* in Man. In 
1748 the enactment relative to game implies by its mention 
of Grouse that they then existed in Man. 
In 1776 Rev. John Christian includes Grouse among the 
wildfowl of Marown ; in 1789 the Duke of Athol issued 
notices (of which a copy is now in possession of the High 
Bailiff of Castletown) threatening the disturbers of his 
‘Growse’; and Feltham in 1797 says that they ‘ abound.”? 
Robertson, a little earlier, tells us that they were plentiful 
also on the Calf, but John Quayle, C.R., who held that 
island from the Duke of Athol, writes in 1776 to his 
brother-in-law, James Moore: ‘ My efforts to plant Deer 
1 Perhaps this means Black-game only, and Denton’s remark was true of the 
Red Grouse. 
2 A letter written by Captain Samuel Cable, R.N., to Lieut.-Col. J. L. Philips, 
from ‘ Balla-na-How,’ Onchan, and dated 24th August 1797, mentions that the 
sons of Mr. Banks, of that place, obtained one day a little before four brace and 
a half of moor game on the mountains. (Faraday, Manchester Memoirs, vol. xlv. 
No. 8, p. 29.) 
