348 WOOD GROUS. Class II. 



Mas Norvegis Tiur, Teer, Auerhahn. Frisch, i. 107, 



Toedder. Foemina Norv. 108. 



Roey. Brunnich, 1Q4, Devi peteln. Scopoli, No. 1 69. 



Aurhan. Kram. 356. Br. Zool. 84. plates M. M*. 



Arct. Zool. i. 364. 



JLHIS species is found in no other part of 

 Great Britain than the Highlands of Scotland, 

 north of Inverness, and is very rare even in 

 those parts. It is there known by the name of 

 Capercalze, Auer-calze, and in the old law 

 books Caperkally ; the last signifying the horse 

 of the woods ; this species being, in comparison 

 of others of the genus, pre-eminently large.f 



Giraldus Cambrensis^ describes it under the 

 title of Peacock of the zvood, from the rich green 

 that shines on the breast of the male. Boe- 

 thius\ also mentions it under the name of Ca- 

 percalze, and truly describes its food, the ex- 

 treme shoots of the pine. He afterwards deli- 

 vers an exact description of the Black cock, but 

 gives it the name of the Cock of the wood, an 

 appellation now confined to this species. Bishop 

 Lessly\\ is a third of our historians who makes 



t For the same reason the Germans call it Aur-han, or the 

 JJrus, or wild ox cock. 

 X Topogr. Hihern. 706. § Descr. Regni Scotia. 7. 



j] Scotice Descr. 24. 



