LAST OF THE INDIGENOUS SCOTTISH CAPERCAILLIES 177 
There can, I think, be little doubt that the description 
of lot 652 in Donovan’s sale catalogue was drawn up for 
sale purposes. 
It is, of course, possible that genuine specimens of the 
original indigenous British Capercaillie remain to be yet 
discovered, In the meantime (1921) the cock-Capercaillie 
in the Hancock. Museum, at Newcastle-on-Tyne, would 
appear to be the only surviving specimen with any good 
‘claim to rank as Scottish, and it may therefore be said 
to be, as the title of my paper suggests, the last of the 
indigenous Scottish Capercaillies. 
In conclusion, I should like to thank Dr Percy Lowe 
and Mr N. B. Kinnear of the Natural History Museum, 
Cromwell Road, London, and Mr Leonard Gill, Curator 
of the Hancock Museum, Newcastle-on-Tyne, for the very 
material assistance they have rendered me in the compilation 
of this paper. 
