. Game birds and shooting-sketches : illustrating the habits, modes of capture, stages of plumage and the hybirds & varieties which occur amongst them . 102 103 105 108 GPtOUSE {Lagopus scoticus) FULL PAGE Grouse-shooting . Grouse resting Grouse disturbed Grouse-driving The Fringe of the Moor : Grouse pairing in the Spring IN THE TEXT Here they come The Hidden Hand The Appearance of the Peregrine Embarras de Richesses . A Snipy one under the Kite The Double Feather found in Game Birds Showing manner in which the Claws are cast An Old Highlander from Sutherland Melanism ...... Hybrid between a
. Game birds and shooting-sketches : illustrating the habits, modes of capture, stages of plumage and the hybirds & varieties which occur amongst them . 102 103 105 108 GPtOUSE {Lagopus scoticus) FULL PAGE Grouse-shooting . Grouse resting Grouse disturbed Grouse-driving The Fringe of the Moor : Grouse pairing in the Spring IN THE TEXT Here they come The Hidden Hand The Appearance of the Peregrine Embarras de Richesses . A Snipy one under the Kite The Double Feather found in Game Birds Showing manner in which the Claws are cast An Old Highlander from Sutherland Melanism ...... Hybrid between a Grouse and Bantam FowlTailpiece ...... 110114117129149 111123125126136 138 141142146152 LIST OF Xlll PTAKMIGAX {Lagoinis mutus) FULL PAGE Showing Stages in every Month in the Year (two plates)A Highland Pastoral ...... Snowy Corries (Black Mount) .... Above Loch Maree (Ptarmigan-Shooting) 154, \u . ). 172 . 180 IX THE TEXT Illustration commencinc^ Ptarmigan Hunted The Fatal Shadow Mode of trapping Ptarmigan Supposed Hybrid between Ptarmigan and Grouse Tailpiece—A Day in the Woods at Murthly (Oct. 20, 1888) 155161169175183185. CAPEKCAILLIE APEECAILLIE, notwith-standing the improvementsin shootinsf and modernshot-guns, now that theyhave become one of ourbirds of the chase, seem tobe still slowly and steadilyincreasing, and in most ofthe places which may beregarded as their home inthis country hard shooting,at any rate, does not seemto diminish their though a great many, mostly hens, are annually killedin the low-lying woods of Perthshire and Stirlingshire,their places are generally filled up the following spring byl)irds which come down from the rocky hills that may benear and from places which will not admit of successfuldriving, of which there are many in these , Stirlingshire, and Forfarshire seem to be thecounties in Scotland most suited to the habits of thismagnificent bird, a few being found in Aberdeenshire, B
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