INDEX 
Alington, C-, on increasing Partridge stock, 122 
Austrian sportsmen do not shoot female Capercaillie, 1 1 
Author : 
Anecdote on shooting Grouse at Corriemuckloch, 54 
Hybrid Black Grouse and Capercaillie seen by, 5 
Observes Pheasant to eat berries, 83 
On management of Grouse moors, 50 
On speed and staying power of Grouse, 55 
Possesses remarkable variety of Common Partridge, 125 
Possesses steel-grey and blue-grey varieties of Red 
Grouse, 60 
Studies Capercaillie at the "lek," 11 
Studies moults of Red Grouse, 38 
Bedford, Duchess of: 
On introduction of Black Grouse to Woburn, 20 
Particulars of introduction of Capercaillie to Woburn, 5 
Berezowsky's Pheasant, 76 
Bohemian Pheasant, 97 
Booth, E. T., anecdote on Ptarmigan's nest by, 69 >/. 
Breadalbane, Marquis of, letter to Author from, 4 
Breadalbane, Marquis of, successful introduction of Caper- 
caillie in 1837, 4 
Californian Quail, 135 
Capercaillie {Tetrao urogallus, Linnasus), 1 seqq. 
Abnormal females, 17 
Albinistic varieties, 1 7 
Antagonism of unobservant gamekeepers to, 9 
Bags, 7 
Call, 10 
Classed as wild birds, 15 
Courageous in defence of young, 13 
Courtship, 10 
Destructive to forests, 15 
Diet, 9 
Difficult to approach, 11 
Difficulties and dangers of early life, 15 
Distribution, 2 
Early references, 3 seqq. 
Eggs, 13 
Extends from Great Britain to Kamtschatka, 2 
Feed largely on larvae and insects, 15 
Females assume male plumage, 17 
Flight, 8 
Four distinct species, 1 
Capercaillie {continued). 
Gregarious in midwinter, 10 
Habitat in Scotland, 7, 8 
Habits, s 
Heavy mortality among young, 13 
Hybrids, 6, 16 
Incubation, 13 
Kamtschatkan, 1 
Largest number killed in one day, 7 
Letter of James VI. on rarity of, 4 
Local names, 1 
Nervous of thunderstorms, 9 
Nest, 13 
Not so "obstinate" as Black Grouse, 16 
Pleasure of doubling up a " high " cock, 16 
Plumage of adult female, 2 
Plumage of adult male, 1 
Plumage of young, 2 
Slender-billed, r 
Ural, 1 
Chapman, A., on courtship of Blackcock, 29 
Chinese Ring-necked Pheasant, 79 
Cobbold, Dr. Spencer, on life history of "gapes," 93 
Cordeaux, John, on distant flights of Pheasant, 84, 85 
Dartmoor, causes of decrease of Black Grouse on, 20 
Derby, Earl of, Japanese Pheasants in collection of, 107 
Digby, H. A., on two melanotic varieties of Common 
Partridge, 125 n. 
Dunn, M., on contents of crop of male Capercaillie, 9 
Elliot's Pheasant, 73 
Ferrier, J., on Quail in Unst, 132 
Fife, Earl of, unsuccessful experiment with Capercaillie, 4 
Fotheringham, Walter, organises battue of Capercaillie, 7 
Fuller, Mr., on remarkable cross, 99 
Furstenberg, Prince : 
Letter to Author from, 12, 13 
On habits and call of Capercaillie, n, 12 
Gallinaceous birds, absence of scent of, when sitting, 
118 
Giraldus Cambrensis on Capercaillie, 3 
137 s 
