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red game
The red grouse, Lagopus scoticus (see grouse). ? Obs.
1674Ray Coll. Words, Eng. Birds 85 The Redgame: Grygallus minor. 1676― Willughby's Ornith. ii. 128 The Gor-cock or Moor-cock, or Red-game. 1761Act 2 Geo. III, c. 19 §1 No Person..shall..take, kill..buy [etc.],..any grouse, commonly called Red Game, between the first Day of December and the twenty-fifth Day of July, in any Year. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XVIII. 398/2 The scoticus, red game, or moor-fowl is peculiar to the British islands. 1819Shaw Gen. Zool. XI. ii. 294. |