1 J:* THE WOOD CBOUHi: OR CAPElirA 11,74 E. 
Other eeveii, she sat steadily for five weeka. On 
examining the eg^gB, howcTer, they wrrc rII fount! 
U) be a(iill*N 
" In the early imrt of 1831, thrive apartments m're 
ingeniouiily toriiu'd atljatniiij; mm aiiuther. Th« 
hen was placed in the central cJiainlfer, between 
which and the enclosure on either wide, each of vi liieh 
contained a male, there was an vc^y communication ; 
§0 contrived however, that ihe female could have ac- 
cms to hoili the tnide^, whilsi they, from their greater 
siKe, could neitljcr approacJi eacli otlipr, nor disturb 
the female as lon|^ as she chose to remain in hei own 
apartment. In May and June of that year she laid 
twelve effgs, tseven of which were set under a com- 
mon hen. Of ibese, four were hatclied in an appa- 
rently heallby Btate^ one was addle, and the other 
two contained tbad birds. Of those St-ft with the ca- 
percailzie hen, she broke one* and sat upon the other 
four, of wliicb two were batched, and the other two 
were found to contain dead birds. Of lite two 
liatched one soon died. Both the barn-door hen 
and the female capercAiJzie eat twenty-nine days, 
from the time llie lavinof was completed till the yomif^ 
were hatched ; and Mr Cn mining' calls my attention 
to t!ie fact, that there were birds in all the eggs of 
this year's laying except one- 
" My visit to Braeraar took place about the first 
week of last August- 1 think all tfie fire younjr 
were then alive, and although otdy a few weeks old, 
they were by that time larger than the largest moor- 
