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Wolf; ( Pop. Sc. fieview; 1878, p. 397), in his ' Polychronicon! 

 again makes mention of " pekokes " (pavonibus), which were 

 probably Capercaillies (v. Translation, by John Trevisa, A.D. 

 1357-1387), quoted fully with remarks by Harting (pp. cit.) 



1676. Willughby (F.) (' Ornithologiae Libri, etc.; recognovit 

 Joannes Raius. London : 1676'), mentions it as known in the 

 country under the names " Cock of the Mountain or of the 

 Wood," and " Urugallus fcemina" as " The Hen of the Wood 

 or Mountain," pp. 123, 124, and figs, on plate xxx. 



1678. Eay, John (' Ornithology,' etc., p. 173), says : "This 

 bird is found on high mountains beyond seas, and, as we are 

 told, in Ireland (where they call it ' Cock of the Wood '), but 

 nowhere in England." 



1684. O'Flaherty (" West, or H.-Iar Connaught") mentions 

 the species under the name " Cocks of the Wood." 



1772. J. Eutty ('Nat Hist, of the County of Dublin,' 1772. 

 vol. i. p. 302, footnote) says : " Urugallus major, Gesneri : 

 Tetras urugallus, Linnaei ' The Cock of the Wood,' British 

 Zoology. One of these was seen in the county of Leitrim 

 about the year 1710. But they have entirely disappeared of 

 late, by reason of the destruction of our woods." 



1760. Pennant also states that about 1760 a few were to 

 be found about Thomastown in Tipperary, and Professor 

 Newton (op. cit.) informs us that no later evidence is forth- 

 coming, and adds : " Thus it would seem that the species was 

 exterminated at nearly the same time both in Ireland and 

 Scotland." 



Mr. Scoular, after quoting Giraldus and Act llth Anne, 

 adds that it " remained in the County of Cork till so late as 

 1750," on the authority of Mr. T. Whitla. 1 (' Journ. Geol. Soc, 

 ; I. p. 227.) 



1 Other references to the species in Ireland will be found in the Irish 

 Statutes, 11 Anne, ch. 7, which prohibits shooting of them for seven years. 

 Smith, '* History of Cork,' 1749. The " Wild Turkey" of Act George III. 

 27, may or may not apply to Capercaillies, but the Rev. Dubourdieu's ' ' Wild 



