CHAPTER XIIl. 



EXTENSION IX OUTLYIXG COUNTIES. 



LINLITHGOW. 



Linlithgow, marching with Stirlingshire, will, in course of 

 time, probal)ly receive its supplies from the latter county, 

 through Callendar woods, near Falkirk, where the species 

 lias as yet only once been met with (1878), although these 

 extensive woods, and others on Bonnymuir, are within sight 

 of Chasefield and Torwood covers. It is also a possible 

 line of advance, which has already been indicated by the 

 advent of tlie female buxl shot at Dalmeny Park, near 

 Queensferry (48 miles from Q ), by Lord Kosebery ; which 

 bird was no doubt one of the two seen a few days before 

 l)y ^Ir. Paterson at Pitreavie, near Dunfermline.^ But this 

 line of approach is less likely, as it will be dependent 

 upon the stocking of the woods of Pitreavie and Pitfirrane, 

 on both of which estates the wood is rather old, or of too 

 mixed a character, to afford j^ood harbourafije or make an 

 increase likely. The advance of the Capercaillie from this 

 direction will probaldy be dependent upon planting on the 

 Fife side of the Firth. 



' Since this was written I have been infonned l>y the keeper at Dalmeny 

 Park that anntht-r feniah- l»ir<l had been .s«;en at Dahneny about six years Itefore, 

 say 1871 ; and another has been seen on <'niiijie Hall since liord Kos»'bery 

 shot tlie aU)Ve. 



