22 The Natural History of British Game Birds 
Worcestershire. — Occasionally found about Wyre Forest, also in Bewdley, Cleehills, 
and near Eastham. 
Northamptonshire. — Rare visitor. 
Herefordshire. — Found at Cusop Hill and the Black Mountains, Bircher Common, 
Shobdon, Stoke Edith, and Craswell (Harting). 
Northumberland. — It is found at Kielder and all along the North Tyne moors, as 
well as at Alnwick. 
Cumberland. — Bewcastle, Naworth, Netherby, and Crossthwaite. 
Westmorland. — Found about Shap, Raegill, and the Lowther woods, &c. 
Durham. — A few about Upper Teesdale, near Stokesley, and Lartington. 
Yorkshire. — Still found in small numbers near Sheffield, Huddersfield, and in 
Wensleydale and Nidderdale. In i860 Black Grouse were introduced to Birk Brow, 
Tryup Head, Leverton Moor, and Lartington. 
Lancashire. — Found on Winster, Cartmell, and Furness Fells. Introduced at 
Whitewell in 1864, and Easington Fell in November 1895 (Harting). 
Cheshire. — Formerly in Delamere Forest. Seen in 1892 at Broughton. 
Derbyshire. — Still found about Strines, Glossop, Hayfield, Castleton, and occasionally 
on the Buxton Moors, where I have seen them in 1905 and 1906. 
Nottingham shire. — Rare visitors now, but formerly found in Sherwood Forest, 
Inkersal, Newstead, and Rutcher Hill. 
Lincolnshire. — Introduced to Frodingham and at Caistor, 1871-72. A few still found 
in the north of the county. 
With regard to Wales the species can only be said to be resident and indigenous 
in Montgomeryshire, where it exists in small numbers. 1 A few are found in other 
counties where it has been introduced. It has not been noticed in Anglesey. Pennant 
in his Tour mentions Black Grouse as existing in small numbers in the Clwyd Range, 
but a footnote to the 1810 edition states that it was extinct at that date. Black Grouse 
were once common in Glamorganshire, but are now extinct there. A few are seen occa- 
sionally near Trecastle in Breconshire, and on the estates of Lord Tredegar, Lord 
Glanusk, and Mr. Vaughan Williams. 
Scotland is the true home of the Black Grouse in these islands, and they are still 
fairly numerous in the southern counties, especially about the border. It is not neces- 
sary to particularise the districts in South and Central Scotland where the birds are 
found, for their numbers are constantly fluctuating, according to the amount of protec- 
tion afforded, skill in management, and improvement or deterioration of the ground 
which they love to inhabit. One of the best grounds in the south of Scotland is 
Drumlanrig, in Dumfriesshire. On these moors as many as 100 Blackcocks have been 
killed in one day by the Duke of Buccleuch and his friends. They are also plentiful 
in Wigtownshire and the south-western counties. In Argyll and Buteshire they have 
left many of the localities where twenty-five years ago they were plentiful, and this is 
chiefly due to the change in the nature of the forest areas. I know of many places in 
Perthshire where twenty years ago we used to kill thirty in a day, and now scarcely 
1 A detailed description of the present status of the Black Grouse in Wales will be found in Mr. H. Forrest's Fauna of 
North Wales, pp. 307-309. g 
