34 FARMING FOR LADIES. [chap, ii. 



species which we have imported from distant 

 countries have largely increased, those wild 

 birds of the poultry kind which are indigenous 

 to our climate have all diminished." Some, 

 indeed, appear to have been in our region 

 almost utterly destroyed : as, for instance, the 

 Bustard, the Capercailzie, or Capercali, known 

 also as the Cock of the Wood ; only a few of 

 the latter being occasionally found in some 

 unfrequented districts of the north, and never 

 seen in the more cultivated and populous 

 parts of the United Kingdom. We are, how- 

 ever, happy to learn that the cock of the wood 

 has been lately brought from Norway for the 

 purpose of being introduced into the demesne 

 of Taymouth Castle ; and as the same object 

 is, we understand, now being carried into effect 

 both by His Royal Highness Prince Albert, 

 by His Grace the Duke of Buckingham, and 

 the Earl of Orkney, we have every reason to 

 hope that, in process of time, this noble bird 

 will again be domesticated in our forests. 



Fowls, although now so universally reared 

 in every civilized country of the world as to 

 be considered indigenous to each, were yet, 

 no doubt, originally brought from the more 



