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CAPERCAILZIE. 
ciently advanced ; but we have been unable to 
trace whether this was done, and what was their 
fate.* At a later period, 1838-39, Lord Breadal- 
hane received from Mr. Loyd no fewer than forty- 
four Capercailzies, some of which were turned out, 
while others were retained in confinement ; both 
have succeeded; and Mr. Yarrell states, that in 
1 839, seventy-nine young' birds wero known to ho 
hatched. The Duchess of Athole had some birds 
sent to her at Blair, and some have been hatched 
in the aviary at Knowlsley. Thomas Fowell Bux- 
ton, Esq., has succeeded in rearing them in con- 
finement in Norfolk ; and it is evident, that with 
ordinary attention, there is little difficulty in their 
propagation in confinement, whence, in a few 
years, a stock could be reared in some suitable 
locality, where there was a strict protection. In 
various parts of Northern Europe also, we have 
the authority of Mr. Loyd, Nilsson, and others, 
for their being not unfrequently domesticated. 
In its habits in a wild state, all our accounts 
agree, in stating their close alliance to those of the 
black cock. They frequent forests, and those wild 
tracts of country, which, we imagine, are partially 
interspersed with native brush-wood, intermingled 
with patches of old timber, where they feed on the 
tender shoots, the buds, and berries which those 
regions furnish. In breeding time the male at- 
* Sec an interesting and long aocount of this introduction 
in Jameson’s Journal for July, 1832, by James Wilson, 
copied in the Nat. Lib. Omith. vol. iv. 
