CAPERCAILLIE. 
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end of the ridge a single female Capercaillie was put up by one of the heaters and passed overhead at 
a considerable hciglit ; not wishing, however, to lose a chance, I tired a shot, and the bird was seen to turn 
over and fall headlong over the precipice into the large fir-wood on the slope of the hill towards the north- 
east. That Ave should find her seemed extremely doubtful, as a long circuit had to be taken to reach the spot 
on Avhich she Avas supposed to have dropped and the ground AA-as littered by broken limbs of trees and 
thick undergroAvth. On reaching the spot Ave had marked Avhere the bird disappeared from sight, a careful 
search Avas commenced and almost immediately she Avas discovered lying spread out on a bare patch where only 
the dead spines of the joine trees covered the soil. As this completed the pair of Capercaillie, our work 
Avas now at an end, and, after calling the Avhole of our men together, Ave rested for a time in a sheltered 
gully on the hill-side, and after lunch I made my way back to Dunkeld, well satisfied wfith tbe result of 
the three days spent on the slopes of the hill of Logierait and also with the attention I had met with 
from the keepers, foresters, and beaters of the district. 
