young Capercaillies were by this single method known to have
been hatched out by the Grey-hens."'’
A simple and ingenious trap is sometimes used by the
peasants in Norway for taking the Capercaillie ; and I am
indebted to Mr. Grant for a description of it, and also for
the drawing from which the vignette below was derived.
Where the trees grow thickly on either side of a foot-path,
two long _pieGeS of wood are placed across it ; one end of
these rests on the ground, the other being raised7 a foot and
a half, or somewhat more, from the surface, and supported
by a piece communicating, with a triangular twig, placed in
the centre of the path, and sbi .'contrived that on being slightly
touched the whole fabric falls : a few ..stones are usually
placed upon the long pieces of wood _to increase the weight.
Birds running along the foot-path, attempt to pass; beneath
the barrier, strike the twig, and are killed by the fall of
the trap.
RASORES. TETRAONIDÆ.
T H E COMMON PA R TR ID G E .
Perdix cinerea, Common Partridge, P enn. Brit, Zool. vol. i, p. 363.
Mont. Ó'rnith. J n c t ï
Tetrdo perdix,
Perdix cinerea,
The
Common
Perdrix grise
BeWick,•■Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 358,
Flem. Brit. An. p. 44.
. S elby, Brit. Ornith, voWi. 'p. 433.
JenYnsv Brit. Verfcp. 172.
GpttLn'feBhds ,of’Europe, pt. xxi.
T e m m . Man. d’Ornith. vol. ii. p. 488.
Perdix., Generic Characters.—Bill short, strong, naked at the ba§e ; upper
mandible cohvex, deflected towards thotip. Nostrils basal, lateral, the orifice