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WILD NORWAY. 
places as, mutatis mutandis , lie occupies at home. He, 
too, is an old love ; but his habits and haunts are set 
forth in “ Bird-life of the Borders,” and they do not 
differ beyond the North Sea. This clears the ground 
in regard to three of the five Norwegian grouse ; as 
regards the fourth, the ptarmigan, I have already 
SAILING ON SET WINGS OVER THE TALL SPRUCES. 
{Capercaillies.) 
described elsewhere his haunts, habits, and sporting 
character. 
And now remains, fifth and last, but largest and 
most imposing of all the grouse-tribe, the great caper¬ 
caillie, or tjur , in Norsk. What am I to say of him? 
I must think it over. 
After two more years’ study of the Tjur , since 
