The game birds and wild fowl of Sweden and Norway : together with an account of the seals and salt-water fishes of those countries / by L. Lloyd.
- Llewelyn Lloyd
- Date:
- 1867
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The game birds and wild fowl of Sweden and Norway : together with an account of the seals and salt-water fishes of those countries / by L. Lloyd. Source: Wellcome Collection.
27/732
![Tiif, Capkrcali. — Geographical Limits. — Accidental Vaiaeties. —Sterile Hens. — Food.—Roosting in the Snow.—P:irtial Migrations.— Bewilderment.—Pngnacio\is Disposition.—The Boj'^ and Capercali.— Bewitched Bird. the Scandinavian game-hiud.s, the Capercali, or Capercailzie, the largest of the European Gallina? {Tjdcler, Sw.; Tlur (male), Hdl (female), Norw. ; Tetrao JJfogallus, Linn.), wliich is to the forests of Northern Europe and Asia what the wild turkey is to those of North America, takes undoubtedly the first place. Part of what follows respecting this noble bird appeared, I should remark, in a former work of mine, “ Eield Sports of tlie North of Europe;” but as it has lately been intro- duced into Scotland, and witli every prospect of success, I feel fully assured, that all the details I can give in regard to its habits, &c., cannot but interest the reader. The Capercali has a Avide geographical range, extend- ing at least from the vicinity of the E'rozen Ocean to the Spanish Pyrenees. Temminck says, indeed, it has been met with in some of the Islands of the Grecian Archi- ])clago, in Siberia, and throughout a large portion of the Itussian Empire in Europe (including Poland and Eivonia). In the mountainous and Avoodcd districts of Hungary, Germany, and Switzerland, it is met with more or less 13](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28056140_0029.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
