154 APPENDIX. 



FORMER HISTORY OF THE CAPERCAILLIE. 



Fide CHAP. IV. page 15. 



We have evidence of the prior history of the Capercaillie in 

 the fact, that it was recognised by name by the ancient Britains, 

 whose name for it Avas Celliog Coed. {v. ' Enr/. Cyclop.') 



ADDENDUM TO CHAP. IV. page 33. 



Longfield, in his Treatise on the ^ Game Laws in Ireland,' 

 says that the " Wild Turkeys " of Act George III. must have 

 been Capercaillies, and adds that they were not extinct so late 

 as 1787. The earlier authors seem to have been sorely exer- 

 cised as to what was the correct place the Capercaillie should 

 take in the Class Aves. Thus, while, as we have seen, it 

 received the names of ' pekokes ' and ' Pavones sylvestris ' and 

 'Wild Turkey,' Merrett, in his 'Finax' (16G7, p. 179), puts "the 

 Capricalca, Capricalze Scotis," among the u4quaticce Palmipedes, 

 and Charleton places it still further away in the company of the 

 members of the genus Anser.^ 



RESTORATION IN IRELAND. 



Vide CHAP. V. page 51. 



Col. Edward H. Cooper of Markree Castle, Co. Sligo, has 

 made attempts to introduce Capercaillies into that county. He 

 writes — IGth Feb, 1879 — "My experience is so far not very 

 hopeful. Three years ago I turned out a hen bird. She was 

 not seen again. The following spring I got a sitting of eggs 

 from Scotland ; four hatched out, and lived for about six weeks ; 

 but I believe it is im])0ssible to rear them by hand. This last 

 autumn and winter I have turned out seven birds, but only one 



1 [Vide .—ONOMASTICON ZOICON, Pleroruiiique Ammalii'M Diffcr- 

 entias <k Nomina Proj)ria pluribus Linguis exponens. Cui accodunt MAN- 

 TISSA ANATOMIC A; et qua;dam De Variis FOSSILIUM generibus. 

 Autore Gwdtcro Charlctono, M.D. CAROLl II. ^lagna Britannia. Regis 

 Medico ordinario, & Collcgii Mediconim Londinensiinn Socio. LONDINI, 

 apud Jrt<:o&M7/i .^//cj/ry llegalis Societatis Typographuni. mdclxviii. (4to.) 

 p. 98.] 



