126 PHASIANUS COLCHICUS. 



of Zoology and Botany, for February 1837, as described by 

 William Thompson, Esq. of Belfast. He states that only 

 three other cases have occurred to him in the course of 

 his inquiries on this subject : one mentioned by White in 

 his Natural History of Selborne ; the second exhibited at a 

 meeting of the Zoological Society of London, on the 24th of 

 June 1834, by Joseph Sabine, Esq. ; the third, announced to 

 the same society, on the 12th of May 1835, by T. C. Eyton, 

 Esq. 



