LAST OF THE INDIGENOUS SCOTTISH CAPERCAILLIES I7I 
the claims of the Natural History Museum specimens to 
rank as Scottish as to draw attention to the history of 
the cock-Capercaillie which is now in the Hancock Museum, 
Newcastle-on-Tyne. This bird is kept with a small collec- 
tion of specimens, from which Thomas Bewick made the 
woodcuts for his Hestory of British Bzrds,| and it came 
from the collection of Marmaduke Tunstall of Wycliffe. 
FIG. 2. 
Photograph, by Mr E. Leonard Gill, of the ¢ Capercaillie 
from the [Tunstail] ‘“‘Allaz Museum,” now (1921) 
in the Hancock Museum, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 
The late Dr J: A. Harvie-Brown in his book, The Capercatllie 
zz Scotland, mentions this specimen,” and quotes Professor 
Newton’s opinion that this bird’s ancestry, as given by 
G. T. Fox in his Syzopszs of the Newcastle Museum, p. 783 
‘ Thomas Bewick, History of British Birds, 1797, vol. i., p. 295. 
2 J. A. Harvie-Brown, The Capercaillie in Scotland, 1879, p. 22. 
* George Townshend Fox, Synopsis of the Newcastle Museum, late 
the Allan, formerly the Tunstall, or Wycliffe Museum, 1827. 
