CAPERCAILLIE. 



TETRAO UROGALLUS, Linn. 



Tetrao urogallus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 273 (1766) ; Naum. vi. 



p. 277; Macg. i. p. 138 ; Yarr. ed. 4, iii. p. 45 ; Dresser, 



vii. p. 223. 

 Wood Grouse, Hewitson, i. p. 277. 



Coq de bruyere et Poule de brut/ere, 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 in 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 



