CAPERCAILLIE, 
TETRAO UROGALLUS, Linn. 
Tetrao urogallus, Linn. 8. N. i. p. 273 (1766) ; Naum. vi. 
p. 277; Macg.i.p. 188; Yarr. ed. 4, iii. p. 45 ; Dresser, 
Vil. p. 223. 
Wood Grouse, Hewitson, i. p. 277. 
Cog de bruyeére et Poule de bruyére, French ; Auer-hahn, 
German; Gallo de bosque, Faisan, Spanish. 
My personal acquaintance with this fine game-bird is 
so very slight that I feel hardly justified in referring to 
it. I only once stayed for a few days m a Scottish 
locality inhabited by the Capercaillie, and as those 
days were chiefly spent in pursuit of Red Grouse on 
the open moors, I only obtained casual glimpses of two 
or three of the present species as we passed through 
the fir-woods. I had, however, pursued the Capercaillie 
with very meagre success on the Swiss side of the Jura 
range before I ever saw one in Scotland, and in later 
years saw and heard a few in the mountain forests of 
the province of Santander, on the frontier of Asturias. 
Although the Capercaillie has increased and multi- 
plied greatly in the first locality above mentioned, as in 
