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PHastanus cotcuicus (Linn.). Pheasant. 
Provinces I.—XVII. 
Subprovinces 1-37, 
Lat. 50°-59°. Not native, but generally established. 
Though not an indigenous bird, the Pheasant is so thoroughly 
established throughout Great Britain that it is included in every 
county list, and breeds regularly even as far north as Caithness. 
Still there is no doubt that if the protection bestowed on this fa- 
vourite game-bird were withdrawn, its range would be consider- 
ably narrowed, though it is probable that the species would uot 
become extinct in this country. 
_ Trrrao uvroGaAtius (Linn.). Capercally. 
Provinces [XV.] [XVII.] 
Subprovinces (29), (307), (31), (847), (85). 
Lat. 56°-59°. “Scottish ” type. Formerly also in Ireland. 
Pennant, in his ‘Tour in Scotland’ (1769), tells us that the 
T. urogallus was formerly common throughout the Highlands oi 
Scotland north of Inverness. Even at that date the bird had 
become very rare; and Pennant himself had seen only a single 
bird, which was “killed in the woods of Mr. Chisolme, to the 
north [? west] of Inverness.” 
The Rey. George Gordon informs me that the Capercally for- 
merly inhabited the county of Elgin; and Mr. R. J. Shearer 
marks it as extinct in Caithness. This is the only independent 
testimony which I have obtained respecting the former distribu- 
tion of this fine bird. A search in some of the old Scottish 
county-histories may bring to light some further details concern- 
ing the Capercally. Macgillivray, in the first volume of his 
‘British Birds’ (p. 143), quotes an interesting passage from the 
‘ Historia Scotorum.’ 
At present the bird seems to have become thoroughly re- 
established in several parts of Perthshire, where it has increased 
rapidly within the last ten years, and is believed to have spread 
to the adjoining county of Clackmannan, as I learn from Dr. P. 
Brotherson. 
