170 THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 
desideratum in his collection; but this possibility, although 
negatived by his own statements in 1766, still remains, 
in view of his later writings on the subject. Various copies 
of Pennant’s works, annotated contemporaneously with the 
periods of their publication, have been consulted in the 
hope of finding some additional information on the matter, 
FIG. I. 
Thomas Bewick’s woodcut of ‘‘The Wood Grouse, Cock of the 
Wood, or Capercaile” (see his British Birds, vol. i., 1797, 
p- 295, and subsequent editions) drawn from the specimen in the 
collection of Marmaduke Tunstall. 
but without avail. Professor Newton has stated, “No 
British specimen known to exist in any Museum,”! and 
as I have already stated, no evidence is forthcoming to 
strengthen the claims to Scottish origin of the two 
specimens now in the Natural History Museum in London. 
But the object of this paper is not so much to discuss 
1 Encyclopedia Britannica, 1885 (9th ed.), article on “ Capercally.” 
