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of fir, which give its flefh, very frequently, fo ftrong a taftc, 
as to render it unfit for the table. 
Dr. Latham mentions " that he is well informed, the 
neft of one found in Scotland, was placed on a Scotch fir 
the female generally choofes a retired fpot, and lays from eight 
to fixteen white eggs, fpotted with yellow, on the ground 
among the grafs, and is faid to cover the eggs with leaves 
during her abfence from the neft \ the young run as foon as 
hatched. 
The males and females live feparate, except from the 
beginning of February, when the male, morning and evening, 
mounts on the ftump of fome old pine, with his tail fpread 
and quills lowered to the feet, the neck protruded, and the 
head feathers ruffled. It makes a noife not unlike the whetting 
of a fcythe, and repeats it alternately, and fo loud, as to be 
heard a great way off, at the fame time putting itfelf into 
ftrange attitudes. This is a call for his feraglio of females, 
who attend the fummons ; and this he continues to the end 
of March or beginning of April." 
Our figure was executed from an uncommon fine fpecimen 
in the colledioa of Mr. Leadbeater, Brewer- Street, 
Golden-Square. 
Its provincial names are Cock of the Wood, Mountaifi- 
Cock, Capercalze, Caperkally, or Capercaiie, 
