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and sharp sight, are much better able to hide themselves than the capercaillie, 

 on account of their smaller size, and are oi'tener seen on open plains, even when 

 these are frequented by man, as they fly so swiftly as to be able to escape in time. 

 They are alert to the alarm-calls of other birds, and are very shj' of approach. 



The more negligently a forest is kept, the more likely is it to contain black- 

 cock. In Germany the species is met with almost everywhere, provided the 

 place affords it suitable food, but is not now found in the Black Forest, where, a 

 hundred years ago, it was resident ; nor in the Palatinate, the Vosges, the Taunus, 





BLACKCOCK CROWING. 



or southern Transylvania. It occurs, however, in Scotland, Holland, Denmark, the 

 southern Jura, the whole of the Alps, the Ardennes, the Balkans, Bohemia, Moravia, 

 Galicia, and the Carpathians. It is also found in great numbers in the Baltic 

 provinces, the Urals. Finland, northern and central Russia, Siberia, and as far 

 east as Kamchatka. In Russia it is spreading more and more to the north, often 

 occupying the places from which capercaillie have been driven by timber-felling. 



Hazel-Hen. 



The hazel-hen (Tetrastes bonasia), disliking high grasses on 

 account of their dampness and the impediment they offer to rapid 

 movement, takes up its abode in woods, where there is a mixture of pines and 



