CHAPTER V. 



Tin- Ulack-Cock. Barren Hens. Habits. Food. IN -sorts. - -Sti.rwcil in. 

 Monitory BmK ( 'n\\*,- ,,f Migration. Tln> hiiritii; SCMSOM. The 

 S|H'l df the Black-Cock, Combative Propensities. Cross Breeding. 

 In Confinement. 



nPHERE was a fair sprinkling of Black-Cock, or Black- 

 -*- Grouse (Orre, S\v.; Aarfuyl, Nor\v.; Telrao I'crdrir, 

 Linn.), near to Ronnum, both in the forest and on the 

 open moorlands. 



This hird has a wide geographical range, extending 

 from Scandinavia, Russia, and Siberia, in the north, to the 

 southern slopes of the Pyrenees in the south, and is 

 much more generally distributed over Central Europe 

 where it inhabits both mountainous and marshy countries 

 than the Capercali, being found, locally, in Germany, 

 France, Holland, and the British Isles. 



As regards the Scandinavian Peninsula, the Black- 

 Cock is much more abundant, and more widely spread, 

 than the Capercali. In almost all places, indeed, where 

 there arc woods or moorlands, it is found. Its northern 

 limits, however, are not so extended as those of the 

 Capercali; but it certainly u;oes as hi-h up as M uonin- 

 ni-ka, in Lapland, about llic (N ; fur t hough I myself 



