CAPERCAILLIE. 



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Leipsic in 1766, has given a coloured representation of the 

 egg of Urogallus hybridus, tab. 15, fig. 2, intermediate in 

 size, and placed between the eggs of the Capercaillie and 

 Black Grouse, with a short reference to, and description of, 

 each, at page 33, as follows: Fig. 1. Auerhahn. Urogal- 

 lus major. Ovum coloris rubiginosi, hinc inde maculis 

 parvis obscurioribus notatum. Fig. 3. Birkhan. Urogallus 

 minor. Ovum priori simile, sed minus Fig. 2. Z witter 

 vom Auerhahn und Birkhenne. Urogallus Jiybridus. Ovum 

 dilutius, maculis majoribus. 



I have referred, in the article on the Pheasant, to 

 the singular change which takes place in the plumage 

 of some of the females among Pheasants, and other birds, 



