GROUSE. 



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hatched out during the season of 1839. By an 

 article published in the Sporting Review, for 

 April, 1840, it appears that the greatest success 

 was obtained by putting the eggs laid in the 

 aviary into the nests of wild Black Grouse. Forty- 

 nine young Capercailzie were by this single me- 

 thod alone known to be hatched in the open 

 country.* 



CAPERCAILZIE. 



The Capercailzie is about the size of a Turkey: 

 a fine male will sit fully two feet above the branch 

 on which he is perched ; Mr. Yarrell gives the 

 length of a specimen as three feet four inches. 

 The general plumage is blackish, minutely freckled 



* See Tan-ell's Brit. Birds, ii. 331. 



