LAST OF THE INDIGENOUS SCOTLISH CAPERCAILLIES 175 
Dr J. A. Harvie-Brown, in his book already referred to, 
quotes a letter from Professor Newton, as follows :— 
“Fox, I believe, is mistaken in considering the female Wood 
Grouse in the British Museum to be a British specimen from 
Bullock's collection (/oc. cit.). It is entered in the B.M. catalogue 
as from J/ontagu’s collection. Now, Montagu never mentions a 
Scottish specimen; and as in 1789—when the species was almost 
or quite extinct in Scotland—he was only beginning a provincial 
collection, it is most unlikely that he could have supplied himself 
with one. In Bullock’s sale catalogue there is no evidence of his 
having a Scotch specimen, and he would know how much the value 
of this pair would have been enhanced had he been able to say they 
—or one of them—were Scotch. As it was, they sold for only £7, 
which, as prices went at that sale, was very moderate.” } 
I find, on inquiry, that there is no specimen of a hen- 
Capercaillie from Bullock’s collection in the Natural History 
Museum, Cromwell Road, but that there is a specimen 
labelled, on the leg, as from the Montagu collection. This 
corroborates Professor Newton’s remarks; and the state- 
ment made in 1827 by G. T. Fox, that there was a specimen 
ofa British “female Wood Grouse” from Bullock’s collection 
in the British Museum, may therefore be disregarded. It 
is, however, worthy of note that no little mystery surrounds 
this specimen:—W. E, Leach, in his Systematic Catalogue 
of the Specimens of the Indigenous Mammalia and Btrds 
that are preserved in the British Museum (1816), which is 
practically a catalogue of the Montagu collection, makes 
no mention of any Capercaillie; G. R. Gray in his Lest of 
the... Birds in the... Museum, Part III. (1844), Gallina, 
Gralla, et Anseres, p. 45, has entered “d, Female; Scotland, 
from Donovan’s Museum,” but in his Catalogue of British 
Birds in the... Museum (1863) under Tetrao Urogallus, 
gives “2 Scotland from Col. Montagu’s Collection.” He 
has, however, in his “ manuscript catalogue of British Birds” 
entered “female; ‘Scotland,’ Mus. Donovan,” and it is 
perhaps significant that he has put the word Scotland in 
inverted commas. Mr W. R. Ogilvie-Grant in his Catalogue 
of... the Game Birds... in the Museum (1893) includes 
1 J. A. Harvie-Brown, of. cét¢., pp. 22-23. 
