. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. TETRAONIDjE. 491. THE CAPERCAILLIE. Tetrao urogXllus, Linnaeus. The Capercaillie—also known as the Wood-Grouse, and the male as the Cock-of-the-wood—was formerly an inhabitant of the pine- forests of the British Islands ; but at some remote period it became extinct in England and Wales, while in Scotland and Ireland the same fate appears to have overtaken it in the second half of the last century. In 1837 its re-introduction from Sweden was successfully accomplished in Perthshire, and from that county, Forfarshire, and some other centres of dist
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. TETRAONIDjE. 491. THE CAPERCAILLIE. Tetrao urogXllus, Linnaeus. The Capercaillie—also known as the Wood-Grouse, and the male as the Cock-of-the-wood—was formerly an inhabitant of the pine- forests of the British Islands ; but at some remote period it became extinct in England and Wales, while in Scotland and Ireland the same fate appears to have overtaken it in the second half of the last century. In 1837 its re-introduction from Sweden was successfully accomplished in Perthshire, and from that county, Forfarshire, and some other centres of distribution, it has now spread over the central districts as far as Loch Lomond, East Stirlingshire and Fife, while its further extension seems chiefly a question of time. Already the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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