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birds were on Crimwith moors, near Pateley Bridge, and of 

 these three were procured ; two are in the possession of Mr. 

 Newbould, Grouse Inn, Pateley Bridge, and one is owned by 

 Mr. Hutchinson {Nat. 1886, p. 48). A curious specimen 

 reported at Bolterstone, near Sheffield, was pale on the 

 upper parts and had the breast suffused with black {op. cit. 

 1887, p. 374) ; another variety occurred near Middleham, 

 the belly being entirely white, eyes and legs pink, and the 

 rest of the body a delicate fawn colour {op. cit. 1891, p. 115). 

 Whernside moors were at one time noted for silver varieties ; 

 Mr. R. H. Rimington-Wilson informs me that he has a nearly 

 white specimen, killed on Broomhead moor, another slate 

 coloured, and a bird which in appearance resembles a hybrid 

 between the Grouse and the Partridge ; and Mr. E. B. Emerson 

 has a hen bird, shot by himself on his Swainby moor, 

 about the year 1890, that is of a uniform black plumage, 

 speckled with grey or yellowish grey, and a few greyish brown 

 marks on the breast. 



In the Field of 13th January 1866, reference is made to 

 a Grouse in Wensleydale which had a third foot protruding 

 from under the right wing. Hybrids are not unknown, and 

 a cross between this species and the Partridge was recorded 

 from Bluberhouse by Lord Walsingham {Nat. 1896, p. 159 ; 

 and Yarreh's " British Birds," 4th Ed. Vol. iii. p. 114). 

 In the Field of 2nd June 1900, Mr. John Foster of Horton- 

 in-Ribblesdale, near Settle, states that he flushed a bird 

 from a nest containing seven Grouse and five Partridge eggs. 

 Grouse vary considerably in weight, the cocks being 

 much heavier than the hens ; Daniel, in his " Rural Sports," 

 recorded one at Richmond of twenty-five ounces ; Pennant 

 one of twenty-nine ounces (Yarrell, 1843, ii. p. 319) ; a bird 

 weighing thirty-two ounces was killed by Mr. Newbould, 

 at Pateley Bridge, on 17th August 1872, whilst one of thirty- 

 four ounces was recorded in the Field of i6th November 

 1901. Tunstall mentioned twenty-five ounces as being an 

 exceptionally heavy weight, but birds up to twenty-eight 

 ounces have been reported, and Mr. A. W. Chaytor of Scrafton 

 Lodge, Coverdale, has killed one of this weight. The average 



