Identifier: gamebirdsshooti00mill (find matches)
Title: Game birds and shooting-sketches : illustrating the habits, modes of capture, stages of plumage and the hybirds & varieties which occur amongst them
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Millais, John Guille, 1865-1931
Subjects: Grouse Game and game-birds Hunting
Publisher: London : H. Sotheran
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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ll; and with the exception ofthis one, which shows the Caper well in the back andwdngs, and two that General MIntyre of Fort Kose has,which are as black as Blackcock, the males may pass assomewhat uninteresting birds, possessing the respectivebeauties of neither species. These hybrids manifest apeculiarity which is not noticeable to any extent in eitherCapercaillie or Blackgame, namely, that of a roving dis-position. At times, a single bird will suddenly appear in 1 Since writing tlie above, Mr. Walter Rothschild has been kind enoughto lend me an undoubted specimen, which is ligured in the illustration of thishybrid on page 17. CAIEHCAILLTK 53 places where Ciipercaillie are quite unknown/ thus show-in<r that it must liave wandered far from the phice whereit was l)«)iii. J11 the year 1889 one was sliot at Locldoy,near Nairn, by Ronald Baillie, Esq., and others have beenkilled at various times in Aljerdeenshire. At tlie firstreintroduction of Capercaillie, two cocks were kept penned
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THE CAIEUCAILLIE IASS, CRAIGIE BARNS, DUNKELU. up witli domestic fowls, and in one instance the hens eggswere hatched and successfully reared, but no specimen ofthis curious cross was ever preserved. Since writino- the foreooino; notes I have been kindlv 1 This, again, luiglit be accounted for by tlie presence of a roving henCaper that liad come to the ground in the spring, where slie had paired witha Bhickcock. It is noticeable in the case of the hen Capercaillie that whenshe wanders from her native ground to other districts not frequented by herspecies, she will as likely pair with a Blackcock as not. Vith, for instance,Capercaillie and Pheasants. 54 GAME BIRDS AND SHOOTING-SKETCHES informed by J. A. Harvie Brown, Esq., of the existence ofa hybrid between the present species and a Pheasant whichhad occurred at Arden, Loch Lomond. This remarkablecross was very courteously sent to me by Mr. Lumsden,who shot the l)ird on his estate on that beautiful lake. Itcannot certainly be called a

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