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at Mr. Barnard's, South Cave ; four pure white examples 

 were killed from a brood near Scarborough in October 1869 

 (Zool. 1869, p. 1954), and five more, in a covey of eleven at 

 Doncaster, are recorded in the Field (28th November 1885) ; 

 in a brood of twelve near Northallerton, about 1860, three 

 had white wings, whilst I have seen and examined pied and 

 buff or cream-coloured specimens, several of which are reported 

 in various parts of the county. A local variety has the horse- 

 shoe white instead of chestnut hued ; this is not uncommon 

 in the East Riding, and near York ; it occurs near Whitby, 

 and I have seen and shot specimens in the Vale of Mowbray ; 

 the white horse-shoe is more frequently found in immature 

 birds than in adults, though Mr. R. Lee of Thirsk has a very 

 fine mature example, and one in my own collection was 

 obtained by Col. I'Anson of Howe. Lord de L'Isle and 

 Dudley, when shooting in Baisdale in November 1903, killed 

 two birds, both immature, whose horse-shoes were the colour 

 of a Grouse, nearly black, all the rest of the covey being of 

 the ordinary type. 



An example of what is considered to be a Partridge- Grouse 

 hybrid, procured by Lord Walsingham at Bluberhouse, in 

 August 1866, was in the collection of the late F. Bond (Nat. 

 1896, p. 159 ; Yarrell's " British Birds," 4th Ed. Vol. iii. 

 p. 114). 



The only vernacular name appears to be a corruption 

 of the ordinary one, Partrick, or Partrig, which is used in the 

 north-west and in Cleveland. 



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Caccabis rufa (Z.). 



Resident in limited numbers, very local, though it appears to be 

 extending its range. Originally an introduced species. 



Like the Pheasant, this handsome bird is not an 

 indigenous species in Yorkshire, the earliest allusion to it in 



