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fully developed than in the pure Amherst, and the tail longer. 
A cross was likewise made between a male golden pheasant 
and an Amherst hen, and the young cocks all partook more of 
the colours of the male than of the female parent, having the 
feathers of the crest of a light orange, &c. Since then a cross 
has been made between an Amherst cock and one of the hen 
hybrids. From the eggs a male bird was obtained. In due 
time it had the plume and tail similar to the Amherst, but 
much more fully developed, while its breast was of a dull white. 
A three-quarter bred hen was likewise crossed by the pure 
Amherst cock, and the young were much longer in the legs and 
larger in the body than the pure Amherst, yet the plumage was 
identical with that of its male parent. 
Mr Sabine exhibited at the Zoological Society in 1834 a 
specimen of a hybrid between the common pheasant and the 
grey hen, Tetrao tetriz, which had been bred in Cornwall (P.Z.S., 
1834, p. 52). Mr Kyton obtained a similar hybrid. For some 
years previously a single grey hen had been observed in the 
neighbourhood of Merrington covers, but had never been seen 
to be accompanied by a black cock, or any other of her species. 
In November, 1834, an example was shot resembling the black 
cock in some particulars and the pheasant in others. In 
December of the same year another, which was a female, was 
killed: it resembled the former example, but was smaller, and 
came into Mr Eyton’s collection, and he described it in detail 
(P.Z.S., 1835, p. 62). The left oviduct was very imperfect, the 
ovaries very small, the eggs scarcely perceptible and very few 
in number. In 1837 Mr Yarrell exhibited before the same 
society a third hybrid specimen from Cornwall, between the 
pheasant and the black grouse, being intermediate in colours 
between those two species. Again in 1851 a hybrid between 
the male of the black grouse and a hen pheasant were shown. 
On December 4th, 1883, Mr Burton also exhibited a supposed 
hybrid between a hen pheasant and a male black cock. Mr 
Spicer recorded (Birmingham Daily Post, October 10th, 1888) 
how at the Beeches, Sutton Coldfield, a hybrid between a male 
black cock and hen pheasant had been shot on the 4th. 
