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HYBRIDS BETWEEN BLACK-GAME AND 

 PHEASANT. 



BY 



The Rev. F. C. R. JOURDAIN, m.a. 



In the Zoologist for 1906, pp. 321-330, 1 gave a list of the 

 known specimens of this cross which had occurred in 

 the British Isles. The total number of instances then 

 amounted to fifty, of which forty-one were recorded 

 from England, one from Wales, and seven from Scotland, 

 while one was of unknown origin. This list was sup- 

 plemented by a further note in the Zoologist for 1906, 

 pp. 433-4, in which five other occurrences were clearly 

 established, two from Nottingham and three from 

 Brecon. 



Since that time some further information on the 

 subject has come to hand, and the number of recorded 

 specimens of British origin has been raised to sixty. 

 Particulars of those not included in my previous papers 

 in the Zoologist will be found below. 



[A small figure is given in the Field for January 28th, 

 1905, p. 151, of a supposed hybrid between Pheasant 

 and Black-game shot by Sir Arthur Grant at Monymusk 

 in Aberdeenshire, in November, 1895. This bird is really 

 a hybrid between the cock Pheasant and hen Caper- 

 caillie, and as such is figured in Sim's Vertebrate Fauna 

 of Dee, pi. - , p. 163 (c/. also Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 

 1896, p. 123 : and 1898, p. 19).] 



56. Mr. J. R. B. Masefield (m litt.) informs me that 

 there is a specimen of this cross in Mr. F. A. Monckton's 

 collection at Stretton Hall, near Stafford. It is said to 

 be the produce of a cock Pheasant and Grey-hen, 



57. A hybrid, stated to be a cross between a cock 

 Pheasant and Grey-hen, was shot at Rachan in Peebles- 

 shire, in November, 1883. This was originally recorded 

 by Mr. John Thomson, History of the Benvickshire 

 Naturalists' Chih, Vol. XI., p. 556. See G. Bolam, Birds 

 of Northumberland and the Eastern Borders, p. 456, and 

 A. H. Evans, A Fauna of the Ticeed Area, p. 185. 



