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Loch Kennord, at the back of the lower hills which are on the 

 south side of the Tay. While all the way down the river 

 from Dull, on the north bank, to Pitnacree, near Dunkeld, 

 the birds occur, it is somewhat strange how almost unknown 

 they are across the river at any locality below Taymouth ; 

 the want of wood, however, sufficiently accounting for it. 

 Increase in the growth of the trees at Loch Kennord also, of 

 course, may have been the cause of attracting them. I think 

 there can be little doubt that the bird's power of vision is 

 great, and that this is a powerful factor in their distribution. 

 They are often seen plunging from the wooded heights of 

 Moncrieffe Hill, and making for the woods which lie scattered 

 over the eastern spur of the Ochils, and which are situated 

 upon the properties of Invermay, Condie, Kilgraston, and the 

 neighbourhood of the Bridge of Earn a distance of four or five 

 miles at one flight. Though never occurring on Seggieden 

 property, they are established close to it on Kinnoul, and 

 Colonel Drummond Hay has often seen them passing high 

 overhead, making for the wooded slopes of Evelick in the 

 Carse of Gowrie. 



1877. Had reached Tyndrum, at head of Glendochart, only 

 27 miles from Q , but locality far removed from suitable woods 

 (see remarks farther on, under " General Remarks," p. 105). 



1878. At the present time Capercaillie are abundant at 

 Dall, on Lochrannochside, as I am informed by Mr. George 

 Galbraith, Skye, who knows the district well between that 

 and Faskally, along the Tummel valley. He writes (in lit.) : 

 " At Dall they seem to be more numerous than in any other 

 place [i.e. on the Tummel above Faskally. J. A. H. B.] The 

 Black Wood of Rannoch seems to suit them. I have seldom 

 or ever gone trout-fishing on Rannoch without seeing several." 



They are resident. Two males were first observed in the 

 Black Wood, and lived for two or three years in celibacy. A 

 female was then introduced by the late Struan Robertson, 



