114 THE CAPERCAILLIE. 



The Capercaillie, tlien, lias populated the woods and forests 

 of part of Scotland, principally by its own exertions, since the 

 great restoration at Tapnouth ; but tliere are certain minor 

 centres of introduction wliich have undoubtedly added some 

 impulse to their advance, though, perhaps, not to any extent 

 compared with the impulse from the great centre. Thus, we 

 have the TulliaUan introductions in 1856 and 1864, and the 

 Arran introduction, and that at Lathirsk, in Fife, besides 

 others more or less successful or unsuccessful. The Arran 

 introduction, perhaps, has done least to extend the bird's 

 range, its isolated position naturally placing a bar to their 

 spreading, although the introduction in itself has proved 

 eminently successful, so far as the Hmited area of wood 

 permitted. 



