292 The Scottish Naturalist. 



Chap. vii. p. 71 et seq. — Extension in Forfarshire. 



The following are extracts from a letter from Lord Southesk 

 to my publisher, Mr David Douglas, which the latter has been 

 so good as to forward to me : — 



"At p. 56 (Map), The author represents Capercailzies as 

 ' established ' in my park (due north from Farnell), and occa- 

 sionally appearing along the river, thence to Brechin. My park 

 has little but hardwood on it, and the portion outside is in arable. 

 I doubt if a Capercailzie ever presented itself in all that part. 



"The great iir-woods of the Munromman Moor stretch over 

 some 5000 acres south from Aldbar Castle. Some 3000 acres of 

 this belongs to me. It is full of Capercaillies. The first was 

 shot in 1872, but they had appeared a year or two before. The 

 first I saw^ myself was a hen-bird, but that was in a fir-wood of 

 mine (Caldcott's Wood) near Dun's Dish. They do not, how- 

 ever, breed there. In' Munromman Moor I have repeatedly 

 come on young broods, and in shooting these we generally see a 

 dozen or more old birds in course of a few hours." 



I shall be much obliged to Lord Southesk if he will kindly 

 keep me acquainted with any changes in the Capercaillzie popu- 

 lation of his district, or of any " extension of range " in the 

 neighbouring county of Kincardine. 



Chap. xii. p. 82. — Extension in Stirlingshire. 



One was killed in 1879 to south-west of the estate of West 

 Quarter, in the south-east corner of the county. This is the first 

 observed in this part of the country. It marches with Callendar 

 estate. 



A Capercaillie male wxnt about last year — 1878 — in the 

 grounds of Garscube House, near Maryhill. This is further 

 south than Dougalstone. 



In Castlecary high wood, in the spring of 1879, 1^0 ^^ss than 

 three nests, of eight eggs each, were found by the person, who 

 himself told me had seen them on the i8th May. 



One was shot at Milngavie, near Glasgow, and exhibited at a 

 meeting of the Nat. Hist. Soc. of Glasgow, on 23d January 1880, 

 by Mr James Eggleton. 



They were particularly numerous this past season in Chasefield 

 Covers, before-mentioned, but scarcer in Torwood. 



