52 Woodcock, white Partridge. 



descriptions. The First Part will be published on the 2d of January, 1837, 

 and will comprise Illustrations and Descriptions of Forty-four Species. 



" The size, Imperial 8vo ; and the price of each Part, 1/. 5s. coloured, 

 15s. uncoloured : to appear at intervals of Three Months. 



9 It is impossible to state the precise number of parts to which the work 

 may extend; the species now known to the Author, of which more than a 

 third will be characterised for the first time in the present work, may be 

 comprised in from 6 to 8 parts ; any extension, therefore, beyond that num- 

 ber will contain still greater novelties, and will of course, be still more in- 

 teresting. An arrangement with remarks on the different genera and the 

 peculiarities of their forms, will be given either at the close or in the course 

 of the publication, so that the work may be formed into volume^ \noYdVtV 



" Should the present publication meet that degree of support to which 

 the Author trusts its merits will entitle it, he may be induced to undertake 

 a still larger work on the same subject, similar in every respect to the " Birds 

 of Europe," in which case he contemplates visiting Australia, New Zealand, 

 &c, for the space of two years, in order to investigate and study the na- 

 tural history of those countries, and endeavour, as far as practicable, to 

 make himself acquainted with their natural habits and economy, of which at 

 present but little is known." 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. Short Communications. 



WOODCOCK shot in July. — On the ] 6th of July, Mr. Joshua 

 Crompton shot in a spruce fir plantation near to his house, 

 Sion Hill, near Thirsk, a male woodcock : it was in good 

 condition, and weighed, when first killed, 10§ oz. Fie examined 

 carefully the spot where he flushed it, but could find no traces 

 of its having frequented the place previously. — W. H. Rud- 

 ston Read. Temple, Nov. 18. 1836. 



White Patridge shot. — A curious specimen of the common 

 partridge was shot on Thursday, Oct. 27., in the neighbourhood 

 of Birmingham, the plumage of which was almost entirely 

 white. It rose among a covey of thirteen ; and, after five un- 

 successful attempts to get a shot at it (two of which times it 

 would have escaped had not the plumage betrayed it as it was 

 running), a single shot struck it in the wing, and pinioned it. 

 The bird has since been stuffed by Mr. Gould. 



On my way to town, Archer, the coachman of the Buck- 

 ingham coach informed me that two or three times this 

 autumn he has seen, in the neighbourhood of Chalfont St. 

 Peters, a rook flying and feeding among a flock of others, 

 the wings of which were white, while the body appeared of 

 the usual colour. I have since heard of one with a similar 

 plumage having been seen in the neighbourhood of Up well, 

 Cambridgeshire, by a friend of mine, who followed it with his 

 gun, but was unable to get a shot at it. This was also among 

 a flock of others. Is it probable that this was the same bird ? 



