CHAPTER VIII. 



The Hitzel-Hen. Widely diffused. I >i scri]itioii. Accidental Varieties. 



Haunts and Food. Breeding. Domestication. Naturalization 



in England. The most delicious of Northern (KUDU Birds. The 



Pointer. The Fogel-Hund. Saga, -ity of the Dog. The Hjerp I'ipa. 



Till) is and Snares. 



r |MIE Ha/cl-Hen, Hazel-Grouse, or Cielinotte 

 -*- Sw. and Norw.; Tetrao Jionasia, Linn.; 

 Jlui'opaa, Auct.), was scarce in my neighbourhood, which 

 is also the case throughout the southern portion of Scan- 

 dinavia, where it is confined to a fo\v distrk-ts far distant 

 from each other. In the extreme south of Sweden, 

 indeed, there are none, which may be attributed to extir- 

 pation in former times. In all the northern parts of the 

 peninsula, however, as lii^h up certainly as Muonioniska 

 in Lapland, lat. 68, theM- birds are emnpnratively 

 abundant; and though found on the I'jall sides, they do 

 not go so high up, it is said, as the Capereali and the 

 Black-Cock. 



The lla/.el-lleu dwells in many eminlries. hein^ met 



