ZOOLOGY. 



THE OAPEEOAILLIE IN SCOTLAND. 



By J. A. HARVIE BROWN, F.Z.S. 



SINCE the publication of my little work on ' The Capercaillie 

 in Scotland,'^ various additional items of information have 

 come to hand from my correspondents. As shortly as possible, 

 I propose to collect these into a continuation of the Appendix to 

 the original work. 



Before doing so, however, I would wish to acknowledge and 

 thank my reviewers for the very kind and favourable criticisms 

 which have appeared from time to time.^ 



It has struck me that reviving the subject, by publishing this 

 continuation of the Appendix, may induce some of your readers 

 and purchasers of my book to keep up the annual records of the 

 advance of the species, of new introductions, increase or decrease 

 in different localities, and other items interesting in the connec- 

 tion ; and also to keep similar notes upon such of our animals 

 and birds which have been increasing or extending their range. 

 Such notes I have been collecting for some time, and I would 

 be glad to receive any materials from any of your contributors, 

 whereby such facts can be preserved and made available from 

 time to time, as may be thought desirable.^ 



^ 'The Capercaillie in Scotland.' David Douglas, Edinburgh : 1879. 



2 Amongst the reviews which have rea<:hed me, I would mention those of 

 'The Athenaeum,' 'Nature,' 'Zoologist,' 'Bulletin,' 'Nuttall Ornithological 

 Club' (N. America), Bailey's 'Sporting Magazine,' 'Journal of Forestry,' 

 ' Graphic, ' and the daily Scottish papers. 



3 We would take this opportunity of suggesting to naturalists and others 

 who reside on or near the present boundary lines of the districts inhabited by 

 the Capercaillie (as shown in the map in Mr Harvie Brown's work), to keep 

 records of any extension of the species, and to either forward them directly to 

 the author, or publish them in the pages of this Magazine.— Ed., ' Sc. Nat.' 



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