16 THE CArEKCAILLlK. 



accuracy in his description, tliough MacGillivray's criticism 

 is not quite correct cither (op. cit. p. 143, lines 3, 4, and 5, from 

 foot of page). 



1528-20. In * The Chronicles of Scotland ' Mt is mentioned 

 tliat Kin.L( James Y. " returned to Edinburgh," and the next 

 summer {i.e. 1520) went to "Atholl to the huntis" (vol. ii. pp. 

 343-4). " The Earl of Atholl . . . maid great and gorgeous 

 pro\isioun for him in all thingis pertaining to ane prince . . . 

 . . . witli flesliis, beiff and mutton, lamb, veill, and vennison, 

 goose, gr}'se, capon, cunning, cran, swan, pairtrick, plever, 

 duik, drake, brissel, cock,^ and paunies, black-cock, and nniir- 

 foull, capercaiUes," etc. {op. cit. p. 345). 



1578. Bishop Lesly {'Desc. Reg. Scotia) ' — which is dedicated 

 to Pope Gregory XIII. — 'Kal. Januar! 1578) fixes a locality 

 for the Capercaillie. The following is quoted for me by 

 Professor Xe^vton from the edition of 1675, Eoma, p. 24 :^ 



" In Rossia quoque Louquhabria {i.e. Lochaber) atque aliis 

 montanis locis non desunt abietes, in quibus avis qua^dam 

 rarissima Capercalze, id est Sylvester equus vulgo dictu, 

 frequens sedit corvo ilia quidem minor, qua3 palatum edenti- 

 cum, sapore longe gratissimo delinit. Victitat ex solis abietis 

 extremis flagellis : AUa avis est etiam in his regionibus 

 numerosa, superiore minor hirsutis pedibus palpebris ruljri- 

 cantibus nostri gallum tesquorum dicunt." 



' " T}ic Chronicles of Scotland, by Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie, Edin- 

 burgh, 1814, by John Graham Dalyell." This is tlie best edition, as it was 

 compiled direct from tlie ohl manuscripts, and retains the old spellings. In 

 Dalyell's edition it is said to be a quotation from a later manuscript, and it is 

 oiUled "This passage bears strong evidence of interjiolation." Mr. Thomas 

 Dickson, Superintendent, Search Department, Register House, informs me 

 that he 'Moes not think it is mentioned" — i.e. the Capercaillie — "in the 

 household l>ooks of James V., in which most of the viands then in use arc 

 inontioneil." Extracts from this record are published by the Bannatyne Club. 

 mU«Hl " ExcrrpUi e libris DtnniciUi Jncohi F." 



' " RrisHcl, cock " (*i<;), probaldy for "brissel-cock," or cog de hrotissailcs, 

 ns siiggrsted i« lit. by I'rof. Newton. 



» The cilition of 1578 has the above at p. 2.'5. 



