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Excerpt from Ritish Birds With Their Nests and Eggs, Vol. 5 of 6: Orders Gallin�, Fulicari�, and Alectorides, And, Order Limicol�
Seebohm gives an interesting account of it as observed by him in Siberia. He describes it as a bird of powerful flight, and writes The motion of its wings is rapid, steady, and not particularly noisy, except when it gets up suddenly; on such occasions there is noise enough, and the contemplative traveller who flushes a Capercaillie unexpectedly at his feet as he strolls on mountain or moor, may be excused if some seconds elapse before he has re-collected his scattered senses, and realized the fact that the world has not come to an end. The Capercaillie is almost exclusively a bird of the forests, and during the winter feeds on the spines of the Scotch fir, at other times on corn, acorns, and the shoots and buds of various trees. The superiority of the hen when brought to table, has been assigned to the fact that she obtains her food on the ground, whilst the cock, living so much on the trees, is tempted to feed on the pine needles even during the summer. The Capercaillie is polygamous, the cocks fighting most desperately during the spring. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
