Another "deadfall" for taking capercailzie in Norway is described by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference

"I could bring him down like a capercailzie," said M'Iver, coolly, running his eye along his pistol and cocking it through his keek-hole.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference

Albert had sport -- nineteen roe-deer on the first day, besides hares, pheasants, grouse, and a capercailzie, all which trophies were spread out before the house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901] Reference

Nor any game, such as grouse, partridge, pheasant, capercailzie, wild duck; nor any cheese, nor fruit, nor pastry, nor coffee, nor eau de vie; and avoid all sweets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to Dead Authors] Reference

A capercailzie is, according to the dictionaries, a bird of "a delicious flavour" and partially "green;" it is also found in Norway "very fine and large," as IBSEN might say.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 7, 1891] Reference

I may add that a cross between a rabbit and guinea pig is in the possession of a person at Horncastle; and I have lately heard of a cross between black game and the capercailzie in Scotland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference

Ericson swallowed the leg and the wing of the capercailzie without any further mastication, and launched out in a torrent of admiration of the most prodigious courage the world had ever seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference

(the woodcock, not the capercailzie), thrushes, pheasants, and several more; and pigeons were only too plentiful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine] Reference

The magnificent capercailzie is now flourishing again in the north, to the honour of those who laboured for its restoration.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Fields] Reference

But the ptarmigan's not gone yet, though there are not many; and for the capercailzie -- only who that loves them will be here to see!.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's Mine's Mine — Volume 1] Reference

And at the same time, the old story goes, were great birds, far taller than a man, who fed where now the bustards and the capercailzie are.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man] Reference

Lightfoot brought to the cave the capercailzie and willow grouse and other birds which were good things for the larder, and Ab looked on admiringly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man] Reference

The ptarmigan and capercailzie were screaming from those upper regions; and the nimble roes, with their fawns, bounding through the green defiles below.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scottish Chiefs] Reference

On his head he wore a low-crowned, broad-brimmed Tyrolean hat, black in color, and ornamented with green ribbons and with the feathers of the capercailzie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historical Tales, Vol 5 (of 15) The Romance of Reality, German] Reference

The most striking object was a great stuffed bird that stood in a glass-case before the window -- a capercailzie shot by Quarrier long ago in Norway, and presented to his brother-in-law.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denzil Quarrier] Reference

The late Marquis of Breadalbane was at no small cost and trouble in re-introducing the species, and to some extent he succeeded; but the capercailzie is, I understand, still restricted to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed] Reference

Having made a fair bag and been absent from the canoe for five hours they returned, and after cutting up a capercailzie and grilling it over the fire, they got the boat into the water and started.    From Wordnik.com.  [Condemned as a Nihilist A Story of Escape from Siberia] Reference

He returned and told Luka, and then wandered away again, as he had seen that birds were very plentiful, and he returned in three hours to the boat with a dozen grouse, six ptarmigan, and a capercailzie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Condemned as a Nihilist A Story of Escape from Siberia] Reference

The bustard fed in the vast nut forests, the capercailzie was proud upon the moors, where the heath-cock was as jaunty, and the willow grouse and partridge were wise in covert to avoid the hungry snowy owl.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man] Reference

Further, when extirpated in a district, it is found that, as in the case of the capercailzie and the golden eagle, the neighboring regions in which the raven continues to exist fail for ages to furnish a fresh supply.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed] Reference

The first and oldest -- the only one with any real claim to be considered as truly native -- is the cold Northern, Alpine and Arctic element, comprising such animals as the white hare of Scotland, the ptarmigan, the pine marten, and the capercailzie -- the last once extinct, and now reintroduced into the Highlands as a game bird.    From Wordnik.com.  [Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science] Reference

A coal-black female capercailzie would be far more conspicuous on her nest, and more exposed to danger, than in her present modest attire. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference

Scotland the capercailzie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Feats on the Fiord The third book in "The Playfellow"] Reference

A leg and wing of a capercailzie, enquired.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference

Ralph had, indeed, many a time hunted rabbits, hares, mountain-cock, and capercailzie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boyhood in Norway] Reference

(4) For the importation of elephants, tigers, lions, buffalo, hippopotami, giraffes and capercailzie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 5, 1919] Reference

The eagle, pheasant, capercailzie, quail, parrot, locust-bird, becafico, and humming-bird are rare; the remainder are all tolerably common.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4. (of 7): Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference