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it.- head resting on it- -h..uiderv It has the reputation of being exceedingly gentle and 

 amiaHe. :m<l i- mure tame and motv disj.o-.-d to IN* domestic than any other, even p-i uniting 

 one to take it up by the hand. It- ino\i-iin-nt.s are habitually alow and deliberate. 



Tin < \iii:< AH i 11. al-. known by tin- names Cork of the Wood*, Mountain Cock, 

 Auerhahn, ainl Cajw-n -ail/if, i- n..\\ mostly frequently foinul in the nortliiTii pail- of Kuni|ie, 

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I'll.- ( ;i|..T<-ailli.- is <-.!. 'l.t-ii.-.!. not only for its great size and the excellence of its flesh, 

 hut for it.s singular habit.s just j i. -\iou.s to and during the breeding aeason. Mr. l,lo\d has 

 i:iv: II. -nt an account of these curious proceedings, that they must be told in his own 



words: 





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" At this period, and often when the ground is still d^-ply rov.-n^l with snow, tin* rock 

 stations himself on a pine and commences his love song, or pin;/, a- it i> t. -\ m.-<l in Swcd.-n. to 

 attract the hens about him. This is usually from the first dawn of day to sunrise, or from a 

 little after -unset until it is quite dark. The time, however, more or lev- de|*-nd- njton the 

 mildness of the weather and the advanced state of the season. 



"During his 'play,' the neck of the ('apercaillie is -tret<-he<l out. his tail is raised and 

 spread like a fan, his wings droop, his feathers are ruffled up. and. in short, he min-h resembles 

 an angry turkey -cock. He begins his play with a call something resembling Peller / peUer I 



