THE GAME-BIRDS. 



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The Capercailzie, handsomest of our game-birds, if not 



indeed of British birds irrespective of order, has, as already 



mentioned, been successfully reintroduced 



Capercailzie.^^^^^^ the pine-forests of Scandinavia to those 



of Scotland, after an absence of nearly a hundred years. 



The precise meaning of the name is "horse of the woods." 

 A great deal of interesting information on this and every 

 other point in connection with the bird's distribution and 

 history is to be found in Harvie-Brown's ' Capercaillie 



