Birds of anomalous Plumage. 595 



30. 1768," has remarked, " A gentleman in this neighbour- 

 hood had two milk-white rooks in one nest. I saw the birds 

 myself, and was surprised to find that their bills, legs, feet, 

 and claws, were milk-white." Sir William Jardine, in a note 

 on this subject, to his edition of White's Natural History of 

 Selborne, has these remarks : — " The common rook seems to be 

 more subject to a white variation than its other British con- 

 geners. Specimens entirely white are not often seen, but in- 

 dividuals, with parts of the wings and tail pure white, occur 

 in almost every rookery." 



JVhite Croivs we have seen very often, says Captain Thomas 

 Brown, in a note to his edition of White's Selborne. 



The Haven in WJiite and Pied Plumage. — The raven " is 

 sometimes found quite white or pied." {Montagu in Rennie^s 

 Mont, Orn. Diet.) 



" A Pair of Magpies^ entirely of a Cream Colour, were 

 hatched at a farm-steading in Eskdale, Dumfriesshire, and, 

 being much thought of by the tenant, were strictly preserved, 

 and continued near the spot for many years." (Sir William 

 Jardine^ in a note to his White's Selborne.) 



A White Jackdaw has been known, as is clear from this 

 remark by Montagu, in Rennie's edition of the Orn. Diet. : — 

 '* Several varieties of this species are given by different au- 

 thors; some entirely black, without the grey on theiiead and 

 neck : others quite white, or mixed black and white." Captain 

 Brown has seen a white jackdaw: see his notes in his edition 

 of White's Selborne. Mr. Waterton has thus noted, in our 

 VI. 396., a jackdaw with white in one of its wings, which had 

 occurred in the park of Walton Hall: — " A jackdaw once 

 appeared here with a remarkable portion of white in one of 

 the wings ; it tarried with us for two years, and then disap- 

 peared for ever. Probably the singularity of its wing had 

 attracted the fatal notice of some experienced gunner, in its 

 peregrinations beyond this vale of safety." 



Of the Starling i7i White Plumage, instances will be found 

 noted in I. 494., V. 284. 



Of the Grey Hefi, the Female of the Tetrao Tetria:, a variety 

 is noted in II. 90., the ground colour of whose whole plumage 

 was " a dusky yellowish white, paler on the under parts, with 

 the dark markings of the feathers umber brown." The in- 

 dividual was shot: Sir William Jardine had the specimen. 



On the Pheasant in White or Varied Plumage, Mr. Water- 

 ton has, in VI. 308., noted the fact of the occurrence of some 

 instances, and, in VI. 314., has remarked, that " a white male 

 pheasant has taken up his abode here, for seven years, without 

 having been once seen to wander half a mile from the house." 



