The Capercailzie in Northumberland

A SHORT time back an account appeared in a New-castle paper of the occurrence of the Capercailzie at Lilburn, in the north of Northumberland. Of course it was also stated that the bird had been shot. The account was "descriptive," and the writer evidently thought he was noting a fact worth telling, for he had "reason to believe that this is the first specimen of a wild Capercailzie which has been shot in Northumberland in the memory of man."