CAPERCAILZIE. 277 



Adult Male.* — Above dark grey, shading into reddish-brown 

 on the wings and finely mottled with black ; a metallic green 

 band across the chest, and the throat glossed with the same 

 colour. Middle of the back not barred with black ; the 

 shoulder-feathers not tipped with white ; and the breast and 

 belly black, a few feathers in the middle being tipped with 

 white. Totallength, 35 inches ; wing, 14-6; tail, 12-3; tarsus, 

 2-8. 



Adult Female. — Middle of the back rufous and buff, strongly 

 barred with black ; breast and belly buff or whitish - buff, 

 barred with black ; general colour of the plumage darker 

 than in T. uralensis, the white tips to the scapulars being 

 narrower. Total length, 25 inches; wing, 11*7; tail, 7*3; 

 tarsus, 2*1. 



Younger Males resemble the adult, but are smaller, and the 

 white band across the tail is wanting. 



Nestling.— Very similar to that of Z. tefrix. 



Range in Great Britain. — Formerly indigenous to Great Britain, 

 the Capercailzie became extinct, and has been re-introduced. 

 It is now found in Perthshire, Forfarshire, and the neigh- 

 bouring districts. 



Range outside the British Islands. — This species is an inhabitant 

 of the pine-forests in the mountain-ranges of Europe, extending 

 to North-eastern Turkestan, the Altai Mountains, as far east 

 as Lake Baikal. 



Habits. — The following account has been published by the 

 late Mr. Lloyd in his well-known work, " The Game Birds and 

 Wild Fowl of Sweden and Norway": — 



" The whereabouts of the Lek-stdlle^ of which mention w^as 

 made in the last chapter, having been ascertained, the gunnei 

 — for a sportsman he can hardly be called — proceeds to the 

 spot, either overnight (in which case he bivouacs in its vicinity), 

 or at a very early hour in the morning. ' He should be there,' 

 we are told, ' by the first dawn of day, when the Woodcock 

 begins to rode^ and the shrill notes of the Woodlark {Alauda 

 ardorea, Linn.) — hence called the Tjdder-klockafi^ or the 

 Capercali-watch— are heard in the forest." 



♦ Descriptions taken from Mr. Ogilvie Grant's volume {Ix.). 



