122 THE WOOD artousE or capercailzii!:* 
fir ttic calling is incorrect ; or else she has been 
frighioned, and will not then quit Iicr place. A 
young hen answers more readily to the call than an 
old one/ 
In other instances^ the f^apercailzie m «hf>t in the 
night- time, by torch-light. This plan, which ia said 
10 he very deBlructive, is, I believe, confined to the 
jioutliern provinces of Swetien, for in the more 
northern parts of that country I never heard of its 
being adopted, 
" In SmaJand and Oateri^othland, this la smd to 
he effected in the following manner Towards night- 
fall, people watch ihe last flight of the capercaibie 
before they go to roost. The direction tliey have 
taken into the forest is then carefully marked, by 
means of a prostrate ti'ee, or by one which is felled 
especially for the purpose. After dark, two men 
start in pursuit of the binls : one of ibeni k provided 
with II gun, the other with a lon^ pole, to either end 
of which a flamheati ia attached. The man with the 
flambeau now goes in advance, the other remaining 
at the prostrate tree, to keep it, and the two lights 
in an exact lioe with each other i by this curions con- 
trivance they cannot well go astray in the forest. 
Thus they proceed, occasionally haUtiigj and taking 
a fresh mark, until they come near to flie spot where 
they may have reason to suppo^se the birds are roost- 
ing. They now cart?fnlly examine the trees ; and 
when they di^cover'the objects of their pursuit, which 
are said stupitlly to remain gazing at the fire blazing 
