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Society to a specimen of a liybrid bird, between tlic common 

 Pheasant and the Grey Hen, which was exhibited. Its legs 

 were partially feathered ; it bore on the shoulder a white 

 spot, and its middle tail-feathers were lengthened. It was 

 bred in Cornwall. — Zool. Proc. 1834, page 52. This bird 

 belonged to Sir William Call. 



In 1885, T. C. Eyton, Esq. residing near Wellington, 

 Shropshire, sent up for exhibition to the Zoological Society, 

 a liybrid bird between the cock Pheasant, and the Grey Hen, 

 with a note, as follows : — " For some years past a single 

 Grey Hen has been seen in the neighbourhood of the Mer- 

 rington covers, belonging to Robert A. Slaney, Esq. but she 

 was never observed to be accompanied by a Black Cock, or 

 any other of her species. In November last a bird was shot 

 on the manor adjoining Merrington, belonging to J. A. 

 Lloyd, Esq. resembling the Black game in some particulars, 

 and the Pheasant in others. In December another bird was 

 shot in the Merrington covers, resembling the former, but 

 smaller ; this, which is a female, is now in my collection, 

 beautifully preserved by Mr. Shaw of Shrewsbury." — Zool. 

 Proc. 1835, page 62. 



The figure given on the opposite page represents this bird, 

 Mr. Eyton having with great kindness allowed me the use of 

 his specimen for that purpose. Mr. Eyton observes in his work 

 on the Rarer British Birds, that the brood to which his hybrid 

 bird belonged, consisted of five ; one of them remained in the 

 possession of J. A. Lloyd, Esq. of Leaton Knolls: the other 

 three, with the old Grey Hen, fell victims to a farmer's gun, and 

 were consequently destined to the table. Mr. Eyton further 

 remarks, at page 101, that he had also seen another specimen 

 killed near Corwen, in Merionethshire, and then in the col- 

 lection of Sir Rowland Hill, Bart. 



In the first volume of the Magazine of Zoology and 

 Botany, William Thompson, Esq. of Bclfiist, describes in 



