TETRAONID.t. 



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THE CAPERCAILLIE. 



Tetrao urogallus, Linnreus. 



The Capercaillie — also known as the Wood-Grouse, and the male 

 as the Cock-of-the-wood — was formerly an inhabitant of the pine- 

 forests of the British Islands ; but at some remote period it became 

 extinct in England and Wales, while in Scotland and Ireland the 

 same fate appears to have overtaken it in the second half of the last 

 century. In 1837 its re-introduction from Sweden was successfully 

 accomplished in Perthshire, and from that county, Forfarshire, and 

 some other centres of distribution, it has now spread over the central 

 districts as far as Loch Lomond, East Stirlingshire and Fife, while 

 its further extension seems chiefly a question of time. Already the 



