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RED GROUSE. 
GOR-COCK. MOOR-COCK. MOOR-FOWL. MUIR-FOWL. 
Lagopus Scoticus, VIELLOT. 
Tetrao Scoticus, LATHAM. 
Lagopus. Lagos—A hare. Pous—A foot. Scoticus—Scotch. 
THE hardy Grouse, coeval with the Ancient British of these 
islands, is alone to be met with here. It is a native of various 
parts of England and Wales, but is, as indicated by its specific 
name, especially abundant in Scotland, not only in the north, 
in Sutherlandshire and Rosshire, but on the Grampian central 
ranges, and in the south on the Pentland Hills, the Lammer- 
muir, immortalized by Sir Walter Scott for the fatal bridal, 
and the mountains of Peeblesshire, Selkirkshire, and Dumfries- 
shire. In the Hebrides it is likewise plentiful, and_in Orkney 
it is found in various parts of the mainland, in Hoy, Waas, 
Ronsay, and Eday. In Ireland it is met with in most 
suitable localities. 
The red bird, like the Red Indian, gives way before the in- 
roads of cultivation, and flourishes only where nature is yet 
to be seen in her primitive aspect. Attempts have been made 
to re-establish the Ancient Briton in Devonshire Dorsetshire, 
Sussex, and Surrey, but in vain; aboriginal inhabitants, like 
my own ancestors in ages long gone by, before Roman, Saxon, 
Dane, or Norman had set foot on the soil, when once driven 
into the fastnesses of Wales and the wild districts of the countr 
there alone they can yet maintain their tribe. 
H. R. H. the Duke of Gloucester turned out eight brace 
and a half on Bagshot Heath in 1829, but, excepting two 
killed two years afterwards on Cobham Heath, nothing more 
was seen of them, though every precaution had been taken to 
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