DARNAWAY FOREST. 



Appendix I. — Roedeer. 

 The accompanying list of roedeer'killed at Darnaway Forest 



Appendix II. — The Capercailzie. 



J. A. Harvie Brown's T/ie Capercailzie in Scotland, 1879, 

 records that Lord Fyffe had obtained eggs of the capercailzie 

 for Lochnabo, a wood between Elgin and Fochabers, in the 

 summer of 1878. 



The first record of capercailzie being seen in Darnaway 

 Forest is from a letter, dated iSth January 1908, from a Mr Peter 

 MacNab, in which he states that " while shooting with friends on 

 the 8th he saw a fine capercailzie cock go over his head within 

 gunshot, but did not shoot it, as he thought it a shame to shoot 

 such a fine bird, and he understood this bird is very rarely seen 

 in Darnaway and it ought to be preserved if possible." 



From the undernoted list it will be seen how the capercailzie 

 have increased in the forest since that date, from 9 birds killed 

 in 1912 to 102 birds killed in 1922 : — 



In the autumn of 1922 

 forest, a mile in length 



a new ride or cut was made in the 

 and 14 yards in breadth through 

 Sections 11, 12, 13, 14, at right angles to the existing public road, 

 the trees on each side of which were also cut back some 12 

 feet on each side, expressly for the purpose of shooting roedeer 

 and capercailzie more successfully. It is too early to judge with 



