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heard what success has attended this attempt. " It was 

 intended as soon as some healthy broods had been reared 

 in confinement, to liberate a few in the old pine woods of 

 Braemar, and thus eventually to stock with the finest of 

 feathered game the noblest of Scottish forests." 



Three birds were sent in 1838 to the Duchess of Athol, 

 at Blair ; and several were sent to the Earl of Derby at 

 Knowsley, in whose aviary five young birds were hatched 

 last summer, four of which are now doing well. 



" According to M. Nilsson, when the Capercali is thus 

 reared, he frequently becomes as tame as a domestic fowl, 

 arid may be safely left at large. He, however, seldom loses 

 his natural boldness ; and, like the Turkey-cock, will often 

 fly at and peck people. He never becomes so tame and 

 familiar as the Black-cock. Even in his wild state, the 

 Capercali occasionally forgets his inherent shyness, and will 

 attack people when approaching his place of resort. Mr. 

 Adlerberg mentions such an occurrence. During a number 

 of years, an old Capercali cock had been in the habit of fre- 

 quenting the estate of Villinge at Wormdo, which, as 

 often as he heard the voice of people in the adjoining wood, 

 had the boldness to station himself on the ground, and, 

 during a continual flapping of his wings, pecked at the 

 lesrs and feet of those that disturbed his domain. M. 



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Brehm, also, mentions in his Appendix, page 626, a 

 Capercali cock that frequented a wood, a mile distant 

 from Eenthendorf, in which was a path or roadway. This 

 bird, as soon as it perceived any person approach, would fly 

 towards him, peck at his legs, and rap him with its wings, 

 and was with difficulty driven away. A huntsman suc- 

 ceeded in taking this bird, and carried it to a place about 

 fourteen English miles distant ; but on the following day 

 the Capercali resumed his usual haunt. Another person 



