i8 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



glossy dark green. BREAST black, with a green gloss, 

 vermiculated with dull buff, the whole forming a con- 

 spicuous pectoral band. ABDOMEN glossy dark green, 

 boldly but irregularly marked with buff on its upper part ; 

 the feathers only edged with buff on the lower part. 

 FLANKS dull black, spotted and edged with buff. UNDER 

 TAIL COVERTS dusky, and barred with buff on the central 

 coverts, and with dark rufous on the lateral coverts. MANTLE, 

 BACK, SCAPULARS, and WING COVERTS dull buff, finely ver- 

 miculated and edged with black washed with glossy green. 

 UPPER TAIL COVERTS similar, but washed with rufous brown. 

 WlNGS : primaries dusky, the outer web white streaked with 

 gray, the inner web with vermiculated bands of buff ; second- 

 aries also dusky, with wavy bands of buff. Axillaries and 

 minor under wing coverts bright buff, blotched with dusky 

 towards their bases ; greater series dove -coloured, finely 

 vermiculated with a darker tint of the same colour. THIGHS 

 buff, with dull black bars. TAIL in deep moult, but the 

 central pair of feathers, which are considerably elongated, black 

 finely vermiculated with buff in the centre, laterally deep 

 rufous finely vermiculated with black. The remaining tail 

 feathers are short and black, edged and marked with buff 

 on the basal portion of their outer margins. Thus these 

 feathers entirely lack the characteristic and conspicuous 

 oblique bars which adorn the tail feathers of the Pheasant, 

 and differ considerably, both in colour and form, from the 

 tail of either of the parent species. 



The TARSO-METATARSUS is an interesting mixture of 

 the characteristics of both parents, inasmuch as it is feathered 

 on the upper half of its frontal aspect. The spur is re- 

 presented by a mere nodule, and is scarcely noticeable. The 

 FOOT is a Pheasant's, but the hallux is on the same plane as 

 the front toes, and not slightly elevated as in that species. 



Mr. Lumsden's bird was shot on his estate at Arden, 

 in Dumbartonshire, on the 8th November 1 890, when in 

 company with some Pheasants, and is the bird figured by 

 Mr. J. G. Millais in his " Game Birds." It also is a male, and 

 in general appearance it resembles a cock Capercaillie with 

 the tail of a Pheasant. The well-developed beard, the deeply 



