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.
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![GEOGTIAIMIICAI. LIMITS. ircqiu'Tit.Iy. It is nlso found in parts ol' France, tliou l)or]inps ratlier sparingly. gh Throughout all the wooded parts of Scandinavia, from Altengaard in Norway, 70° N. lat., udicrc the northernmo.st ])ine forests in Europe exist, to the northern portion of Scania, in short, wherever the pine-tree flourishes, it is pietty common. As high up, indeed, as Muonioni.ska, in Swedish, or rather Eussian, Lapland, 68° lat., I myself once shot a brace of old birds; but beyond that place it is said to become scarcer and scarcer. The male and female vary very greatly in plumage, the predominant colour of the former being black or dark- biovn, Avhereas that of the female is reddish-brown with black bars. In size also the sexes greatly differ, the female being fully one-third less than the male, which, when full- grown, measures some three feet in length, and four from tip to tip of wing. Its size, however, much depends on the latitude it inhabits. In Lapland, at least in the northern parts, it seldom exceeds eight to nine pounds in weight, whilst in the more southern portion of Sweden it has not unfrequently been met with weighing as much as fourteen or sixteen pounds, or even more. The Capercali is supposed to attain a considerable age, which may be partly inferred from its not being fully grown until its third or fourth year. The old male birds may readily be distinguished from the younger, not onlv by their superior size, but also by their greater length of tail, their more eagle-like beak, and the more heautiful lustre of the plumage on the breast. Accidental varieties of both sexes are not of unfrequent occurrence. Nilsson makes mention of as inanv as four « such varieties, viz. :— 1st. A male killed in Dalecarlia and preserved in the museum of the Academv of Sciences in Stockholm.—The](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28056140_0030.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
