CAPERCAILLIE 



APERCAILLIE, notwith- 

 standing the improvements 

 in shootino- and modern 



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shot-o;mis, now that thev 

 have become one of our 

 birds of the chase, seem to 

 be still slowly and steadily 

 increasing, and in most of 

 the places which may be 

 regarded as their home in 

 this country hard shooting, 

 at any rate, does not seem 

 to diminish their numbers. 

 For though a great many, mostly hens, are annually killed 

 in the low-lying woods of Perthshire and Stirlingshire, 

 their places are generally filled up the following spring by 

 birds which come down from the rocky hills that may be 

 near and from places which will not admit of successful 

 driving, of which there are many in these counties. 

 Perthshire, Stirlingshire, and Forfarshire seem to be the 

 counties in Scotland most suited to the habits of this 

 magnificent bird, a few being found in Aberdeenshire, 



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