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58. A male of, this cross was shot in a planta- 

 tion at Bliclworth Nottinghamshire, in January, 1875 

 (J. Whitaker, Notes on the Birds of Nottinghamshire, 

 pp. 230-231). 



59. On January 10th, 1912, Dr. H. Hammond Smith 

 exhibited at a meeting of the British Ornithologists' 

 Club the skin of a bird supposed to be of this cross. It 

 was a young male and was shot on Halsanger Down near 

 Barnstaple, Devon, in company with Black-game, by 

 Mr. Murry George, in October, 1911. A full description 

 of this bird is given in the Bulletin of the British Ornitho- 

 logists' Club, Vol. XXIX., p. 59, and three photographs of 

 it are reproduced in an article by " H.H.S. " in the Field 

 for August 17th, 1912, Suppl., p. iv., vii. Mr. Ogilvie- 

 Grant thought it more probable that it was a cross between 

 a cock Pheasant and a domestic fowl, and could see no 

 reason for supposing that it was a hybrid between 

 Pheasant and Black-game. I have not been able to 

 handle this specimen, but after a careful study of the 

 description and photographs, it appears to me to agree 

 extraordinarily well with other undoubtedly genuine 

 specimens of this cross, and I have no hesitation in 

 recording it as such, in which view Dr. Hammond Smith, 

 after comparing it with specimens of hybrid Pheasant 

 and fowl at Tring Museum, quite coincides. 



60. Dr. Hammond Smith has ascertained that the 

 specimen in the Tring Museum, referred to in my paper 

 (Zool., 1906, p. 329) as of unknown origin, was obtained 

 in Devonshire. 



The following revised table shows the origin of the 

 recorded specimens : — 



ENGLAND. 



No. 



definitely County. Note. 



recorded. 



10 Shropshire (Nos. 5, 6, 26, 32, 33, Some evidence of other oc- 

 34, 35, 47, 48, 49) . . . . currences. 



7 Devonshire (Nos. 2, 12 ?, 15, 28, Possibly two other occur- 



30?, 59, 60) . . . . rences. 



5 Derbyshire (Nos. 17, 20, 21, 22, 

 23). 



