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BLACK GROUSE. 
BLACK GAME. BLACK COCK. 
Tetrao tetriz, PENNANT. MonrTaGu. 
Urogallus minor, Ray. WILLOUGHBY. 
Zetrao—( Quere, from the Hindoostanee Teetur.) Tetrix—The same? 
‘iz is a reverend thing,’ says Bacon, ‘to see an ancient 
eastle or building not in decay, or to see a fair timber tree 
sound and perfect; how much more to behold an ancient 
family which hath stood against the waves and weathers of 
time.’ While we utter a ‘lament,’ then, over the lost clan 
of the Capercailzie, let us at least boast ourselves of his still 
surviving cousin, the largest of our present game fowl, con- 
spicuous for his size and jet black plumage, is a noble bird. 
Black Grouse are common in Russia, Siberia, and Lapland, 
and are found in Germany, Poland, Holland, France, Swit- 
zerland, and Italy along the Alps. 
In Yorkshire they are tolerably plentiful in some woods 
near Sheffield, and one was captured in a street of that town, 
in 1843; one was taken at Hebden Bridge, one near Hep- 
tonstall, and one near Lightcliffe: in Northumberland they 
are very abundant. Individuals have at different times been _ 
turned out in Norfolk, and a few are still occasionally met 
with in these localities; a female was shot at Clenchwarton, 
near Lynn, about the last week in April, 1852. In Somer- 
setshire, they breed on the Quantock and Blackdown Hills, 
near Taunton, and also in Devonshire. A grey hen was 
observed in Northamptonshire, in September, 1849, near 
Cranford, the seat of Sir George Robinson, Bart., and after- 
wards near Grafton Park; the following May and June, her 
nest containing ten eggs was observed. In Sherwood Forest, 
Nottinghamshire, and the New Forest, Hampshire, it is also 
