CAPERCAILZIE. 
277 
Adult Maie.*-Above dark grey, shatog 
on the wings and finely mottled with black ; a m eta he gree 
band across the chest, and the throat gloj^^d with he same 
colour. Middle of the back not barred with black, the 
shoulder-feathers not tipped j and the breaj a 
belly black, a few feathers m the middle being * 
white. Total length, 35 inches ; wing, i4‘6 ; tail, 123, tars , 
2 '8 
Adult Female.— Middle of the back rufous and buff,, strongly 
barred with black ; breast and belly buff or whitish - buff, 
barred with black ; general colour of the plumap darker 
than in T. uralensis, the white tips to the scapulars being 
narrower. Total length, 25 inches; wing, 117 1 tail, 7 3i 
^^yolger’ Males resemble the adult, but are smaller, and the 
white band across the tail is wanting. 
Nestling. — Very similar to that of Z. tetrix. 
Range in Great BriUin.— Formerly indigenous to Great Britain, 
the Capercailzie became extinct, and has been re-mtroduced. 
It is now found in Perthshire, Forfarshire, and the neigh- 
bouring districts. . , . , 
Range outside tne British Islands.-This species is an mbabitant 
of the pine-forests in the mountain-ranges of Furope, extending 
^^0 Norlh-eastern Turkestan, the Altai Mountains, as far east 
as Lake Baikal. 
Hahits.— The following account has been published by the 
late Mr. Lloyd in his well-known work, “ The Game Birds and 
Wild Fowl of Sweden and Norway”;— 
“ The whereabouts of the Lek-sfdlle, of which mention w'as 
made in the last chapter, having been ascertained, the gunnel 
—for a sportsman he can hardly be called— proceeds to the 
spot either overnight (in which case he bivouacs in its vicinity), 
or at a very early hour in the morning. ‘ He should be there, 
we are told, ‘ by the first dawn of day, when the Woodcock 
bemns to rode, and the shrill notes of the Woodlark {Alauda 
arborea, Linn.)— hence called the Tjdder-klockan, or the 
Capercali-watch— are heard in the forest.” 
* Desciiplions taken from Mr. Ogilvie Grant’s volume (/.r.). 
