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LOCAL VARIATIONS IN PLUMAGE OF GROUSE
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    fine broken black cross-lines, while these cross-lines are sometimes almost absent.
  1. This gradual change from north to south of black, or red and black to dark red cocks, and farther south to bright red cocks is accompanied (speaking very broadly, for there are many exceptions) by a loss of the white terminal borders which characterise the feathers of the abdomen.
Totals
Jan. to May Jun. to Dec. Nov. to April May to Oct.
Caithness 22 3 5 3 33
Sutherland 12 4 2 8 26
Roes 6 16 3 4 29
Inverness 30 14 5 8 57
Nairn 0 1 0 0 1
Moray 11 0 1 0 12
Banff 5 0 0 0 5
Aberdeen 3 3 0 3 9
Kincardine 2 0 2 0 4
Forfar 1 1 0 3 5
Perth 17 16 5 13 51
Argyll and Mull 19+1 5 0 9 34
Dumbarton 14 4 3 1 22
Stirling 1 3 0 4 8
Fife 1 0 0 0 1
Haddington 3 0 1 1 5
Midlothian 5 0 0 2 7
Lanark 1 1 0 1 3
Ayr 1 2 2 5 10
Arran 4 4 1 1 10
Peebles 2 1 0 0 3
Selkirk 7 4 0 4 15
Roxburgh 0 4 1 2 7
Dumfries 8 4 4 2 18
Kirkcudbright 5 3 1 0 9
Wigtown 0 1 0 3 4
Northumberland 9 1 4 2 16
Cumberland 1 0 0 4 5
Durham 0 0 1 0 1
Westmorland 8 1 2 1 12
Lancashire 2 1 1 0 4
Yorks 28 13 14 13 68
Derbyshire 1 0 0 1 2
Wales 10 0 3 0 13
Ireland 0 0 0 1 1
240 110 61 99 510

There is no doubt that the blacker birds of the Highlands of the north of Scotland are more frequently white spotted beneath than the birds obtained