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within a comparatively short space of time. The first bird, 

 from Cornwall, was more of a Grouse in appearance than a 

 Pheasant ; the second, Mr. Eyton's bird, from Shropshire, 

 was more Pheasant-like ; but the present bird was decidedly 

 intermediate, exhibiting characters belonging to both. The 

 head, neck, and breast were of a rich dark maroon colour, the 

 feathers on the breast showing the darker crescentic tips ; the 

 upper part of the tarsi were covered with feathers ; the back 

 and wings mottled blackish grey, like that of a young Black 

 Cock after his first moult, but with some indications of 

 brown ; the feathers of the tail rather short, but straight, 

 pointed, graduated, and Pheasant-like. It was remarked 

 that this bird more closely resembled the hybrid figured by 

 White than either of the specimens previously exhibited. 

 This bird was sent to Mr. Leadbeater to be preserved by 

 order of the Duke of Northumberland ; it was understood to 

 have been killed near Alnwick, and it is now by the duke's 

 liberality deposited in the British Museum. 



Dr. Edward Moore, in his notes on the Birds of Devon- 

 shire, published in the Magazine of Natural History for the 

 year 1837, says, that a hybrid of this kind w'as shot at 

 Whidey, near Plymouth, by the Rev. Mr. Morshead. A 

 male Pheasant, a female Grouse, and one young, had been 

 observed in company for some time by the keeper. Mr. 

 Morshead shot the Pheasant, and, in a few days, the young 

 hybrid ; but the Grouse escaped. The young bird bears the 

 marks of both parents ; but the most prominent characters 

 are those of the Grouse. The space above the eye, however, 

 is not bare, as in the Grouse, but entirely feathered, as in 

 the Pheasant ; the whole of the neck is covered with black 

 feathers, somewhat mottled ; the tail is not forked, but fan- 

 shaped, and half as long as that of the Pheasant ; the tarsi 

 are bare, as in the Pheasant ; the colour is generally, except 

 the neck, that of the Pheasant ; but it has the white spot on 



