NATURAL HISTORY. 
CLASS I. BIRDS. 
DIVISION 1.—LAND BIRDS. 
ORDER. GALLINADE. 
PHASIANUS. Coxcuicus Lin. Pheasant. 
Common in the neighbourhood of Mamhead, 
Kenn, and other preserves, within the district. 
A domesticated species of Asiatic origin, A 
white variety of this beautiful bird, is occa * 
sionally met with in the preserves near Kenn, 
TETRAO. 1. Tetrix. (Lin.) Pennant’s Brit. 
Zool, 1. p. 266. Black Grouse, Found occa- 
sionally on Haldon, in Yarner Woods, near 
Bovey, in the neighbourhood ef Buckland im 
the Moor, but most frequent in Dartmoor. 
2. T. Perpix. (Lin.) Brit. Zool. 1. p, 274, 
Partridge, Common, 
3. T. Corurnrx. (Lin.) Brit. Zool. 1. p. 274, 
Quail, Very scarce, found occasionally in 
the neighbourhood of Ashburton. A summer 
visitor, 
ORDER. COLUMBADE. 
COLUMBA. 1. Gnas. (Lin.) Will. Orn. p. 136, 
- Mont. Orn, Dict. Wood Pigeon. Common, 
The different domesticated varieties originate 
from this. Willoughby gives them in a detailed 
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