. The encyclopaedia of sport. skinds of crops to induce the grouse to leave themoor to feed thereon. It has been mentioned that there are certain-moors which fairly answer to the dictionarydefinition of barren tracts of ground. Onthese but little heather is to be found. Colonel Royds, for Rochdale, possesses-a moor which is a good example of this peculiarkind of ground. It is within half an hour ofthe town of Rochdale, which has a populationof some 70,000, and is in close proximity toseveral other large centres of industry. Colonel Royds has forwarded to the writer anaccount of this moor,
. The encyclopaedia of sport. skinds of crops to induce the grouse to leave themoor to feed thereon. It has been mentioned that there are certain-moors which fairly answer to the dictionarydefinition of barren tracts of ground. Onthese but little heather is to be found. Colonel Royds, for Rochdale, possesses-a moor which is a good example of this peculiarkind of ground. It is within half an hour ofthe town of Rochdale, which has a populationof some 70,000, and is in close proximity toseveral other large centres of industry. Colonel Royds has forwarded to the writer anaccount of this moor, which runs as follows :— On the moor itself there is practically noheather (CaUiina vulgaris, or common ling);in some very well drained situations it is justpossible you might be able to find a are several small patches of heatherwithin two or three miles of the moor, and at alower altitude; but it must be five or six milesbefore there is any moorland with any amountof heather upon it. Five-and-twenty or thirty. ^ ^ v\ moose] THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SPORT years ago there was any amount of beautifulheather upon this moor. The cross-leaved heather {Erica tetralix)grows fairly well, and seems to have improvedthe last few years, when there has been a smallerrainfall. The Bilberry ( Vaccinium myrtilhis) does notdo so well as formerly, and does not fruit. TheCrowberry (Empctrum /lignim) is also found,but in a diminishing quantity. The other plants to be found on the moorare:—Mat grass {Nardiis struia), A\aved Hairgrass {Aira floxuosa), Blue Moor grass {Sesferiacxrulea). Hair-tail cotton grass (Eriphorum vagi-nafitm). Narrow-leaved cotton grass {Eriphorumfolystachyoit). Common rush (/uncus conglome-ratus), Heath rush (Juiiciis sqiiarosa), Commonbrake {Fferis aqui/ina). The nests of the grouse are almost invariablyfound in the mat grass, which has the localname of white louk. They feed in the springlargely on the hair-tail cotton grass, pulling upthe stalks and eating the
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