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figured, plate 337, a bird wliicli was considered to have been 

 produced between a Pheasant and a Turkey. Henry Sey- 

 mour, Esq. of Handford, Dorsetshire, discovered three or 

 four of these birds in the woods near his house, and shot one 

 in October 1759, which he sent to Mr. Edwards, who figured 

 and described it, as quoted. I have twice been shown birds 

 that were said to be the produce of the Pheasant and the 

 Guinea Fowl, and the evidence to be derived from the plum- 

 age was in favour of the statement. Of birds produced 

 between the Pheasant and the Black Grouse, several have 

 occurred within the last few years ; figures and particulars will 

 be given under the head of Black Grouse. Birds produced 

 between the Pheasant and Common Fowl are of frequent 

 occurrence, and such a one is usually called a Pero. The 

 Zoological Society have possessed several, which were for a 

 time kept together, but showed no signs of breeding ; they 

 are considered like other hybrids to be unproductive among 

 themselves, all being half bred ; but when paired with the 

 true Pheasant or the Fowl, the case is different. The Zoo- 

 logical Society has had exhibited at the evening meetings two 

 instances of success in this sort of second cross. The first 

 w\as in 1831, Avhen the Hon. Twiselton Fiennes exhibited a 

 specimen of a hybrid Duck, bred between a male Pintail and 

 a Common Duck. It was one of a brood of six, several of 

 which were subsequently confined with the male Pintail from 

 which they sprung, and produced young. A specimen of a 

 female of this second brood was also exhibited. — Zool. Pro- 

 ceedings for 1831, p. 158. The second instance, though 

 later in date, is more in point. In September 1836, a com- 

 munication from Edward Fuller, Esq. of Carleton Hall, near 

 Saxmundham, was read, which stated that his gamekeeper 

 had succeeded in rearing two birds from a Barn-door Hen, 

 having a cross from a Pheasant, and a Pheasant cock ; that 

 the birds partook equally of the two species in their habits, 



