CHAPTER III. 



CAPERCALZIE SHOOTING. 



THIS right royal gunnery, though for the present 

 extinct among us, holds out promise of being restored 

 at no very distant time. The vast forests of fir 

 which begin to clothe the Scottish mountains offer 

 home and fitting food for this king of game birds ; 

 and the efforts recently made by their proprietors to 

 renew the race, by importations from the north of 

 Europe, can hardly fail of final success. Mr. Lloyd, 

 the Swedish traveller, was influenced by Mr. Fowell 

 Buxton, the wealthy London brewer, to procure a 

 supply, which he did to the amount of twenty-nine. 

 These Mr. Buxton presented to the Marquis of 

 Breadalbane. The history of this attempt to restore 

 the cock of the wood to the game of the British 

 islands is given in some letters, addressed by a son 

 of Mr. Fowell Buxton to Mr. Blaine, and published 

 in that gentleman's admirable work, " An Encyclo- 

 paedia of Rural Sports." 



After detailing the reasons which induced his 

 father to send a commission to Mr. Lloyd to procure 



