and the North of Lancashire, 525 



2. Picus major. Greater spotted Woodpecker. Occasionally met with, 



but rare. 

 Gen. Yunx. 



3. Yunx Torquilla. Wryneck. Very rare. 

 Gen. Cuculus. 



4. Cuculus canorus. Cuckoo. Very common.* 



Order IY.—GALLINjE. 



Gen. Tetrao. — Sub-gen. 1. Lagopus.-f 



1. Lagopus Britannicus. Red Grouse. The only species of grouse 



found in Lancashire. It is met with sparingly on the moors to 

 the south of Blackburn, and is very abundant in the forest of Bow- 

 land.j: 

 Gen. Perdix. — Sub-gen. 1. Perdix. 



2. Perdix cinerea. Common or grey Partridge. Abundant.§ 

 Sub-gen. 2. Coturnix. 



3. Coturnix dactylisonans. Common Quail. Very rare. A few years 



since I shot one in the neighbourhood of Lancaster, and this is the 

 only specimen that I could ever meet with, though I have heard 

 of odd ones being shot occasionally by sportsmen, when in pursuit 

 of the partridge. Though rare, it still is sufficient to prove the 

 fact of this bird being met with as far north as Lancaster. 

 Gen. Columba. 



4. Columba Palumbus. Ring Dove. Common. This is the only spe- 



cies of wild pigeon met with in these parts. I have frequently 

 heard of a stock dove being shot, but on minute enquiry and in- 

 spection, the so-called stock dove has invariably turned out to be 

 the common ring dove. 

 Gen. Phasianus. 



5. Phasianus Colchicus. Common Pheasant. Abundant. Though 



this bird is omitted in the lists of Mr. Eyton and Dr. Moore, I 

 think it is fully entitled to rank as a British bird, from the abun- 

 dance in which it is found in a state of nature, in most, or at 



* I heard this bird uttering his well-known note at 1 o'clock, A. M. on 

 Monday, May the 6th, 1833. The night was cold, but brilliantly clear and 

 moonlight, the moon having been full on the 3rd of the same month. 



f Lagopus Britannicus. I have adopted this word as being of more ex- 

 tended signification than Scoticus, which is decidedly faulty : one might as 

 well at once say Anglicus or Hibernicus, as the bird is found abundantly in 

 both England and Ireland. British this bird decidedly is, and exclusively 

 so too, not being found on the continent, if I remember correctly. Dr. 

 Leach was the first naturalist who applied the specific term Britannicus to 

 the red grouse. 



J In the autumn of the year 1835, an animal -preserver who resides at 

 Accrington, six miles east of Blackburn, had in his possession four remark- 

 able specimens of Lagopus Britannicus. The first was of a pure cream co- 

 lour throughout, without spot or shade ; the ground colour of the second 

 was of the same dusky hue, but the bird was freckled and marked through- 

 out with spots and streaks of light brown ; the other two birds had the usu- 

 al plumage of the grouse, except that the wings were white. These birds 

 were all shot out of the same covey or pack that season, on the moorlands 

 east of Blackburn. 



§ Of the white partridge I have already made mention in the * Magazine 

 of Natural History, 5 vol. ii. n. s. page 332. 



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