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detail another hybrid that had been shot in Wigtonshire, and 

 was preserved for Sir Andrew Agnew, Bart. M.P. This 

 bird was shot in a wild state at Lochnaw, where it had been 

 seen several times on the wing by persons who imagined it to 

 be a wild Turkey. Pheasants and Black Grouse are numerous 

 in the surrounding plantations ; but this was the only bird of 

 the kind that had been observed. 



In December 1837, Mr. John Leadbeater exhibited at the 

 Zoological Society a male hybrid between the Pheasant and 

 Black Grouse. It was observed that this was the third spe- 

 cimen which had been sent to the Society for exhibition 



