. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. TETRAONID^.. 493. THE BLACK GROUSE. Tetrao tutrix, Linnseus. Birds of this species are generally known collectively as Black- game, and in Devon and Somerset as Heath-poults; the sexes being distinguished as the Blackcock and the Greyhen. They are found, in small numbers and locally, in Cornwall and South Devon, and are tolerably plentiful on Exmoor, as well as on the Brendons and the Quantocks, in Somersetshire; while they still maintain themselves in Dorset, Wilts, and the New Forest district. In Sussex, Surrey and Berkshire their presence is
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. TETRAONID^.. 493. THE BLACK GROUSE. Tetrao tutrix, Linnseus. Birds of this species are generally known collectively as Black- game, and in Devon and Somerset as Heath-poults; the sexes being distinguished as the Blackcock and the Greyhen. They are found, in small numbers and locally, in Cornwall and South Devon, and are tolerably plentiful on Exmoor, as well as on the Brendons and the Quantocks, in Somersetshire; while they still maintain themselves in Dorset, Wilts, and the New Forest district. In Sussex, Surrey and Berkshire their presence is the result of reintroduction early in the present century, and none are now to be found in Kent, where, however, the species existed in the time of Henry viii.; and it is in an ordinance for the regulation of the royal household dated from Eltham that the word ' Grouse' makes its first appearance in. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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