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in Scotland both the Cock of the Wood, as also the Hy- 

 bridus : " and, at page 245, Mr. Fox has given a figure of 

 this last-named bird, from a specimen in the Newcastle 

 Museum, which was engraved on copper by Robert Bewick 

 from a drawing made by his father Thomas Bewick. The 

 bird has since been figured by Gould, Werner, and others. 

 The figure of the bird given on the next page, was taken 

 from a coloured representation illustrating the Fauna of 

 Scandinavia by M. Nilsson. The last example I remem- 

 ber to have seen was received from Christiania in January, 

 1855. 



A beautiful specimen of this bird, exhibited by Mr. 

 Gould at the Zoological Society in the spring of 1831, was 

 thus briefly described in comparison with the Capercaillie, 

 in the Proceedings of the Society for that year, at page 

 73 : " In the Tetrao medius the beak is black ; the shining 

 feathers on the front of the neck are of a rich Orleans-plum 

 colour ; and of the eighteen feathers of the tail the outer 

 ones are the longest. In the Cock of the Wood the beak 

 is white ; the feathers on the front of the breast are of a 

 dark glossy green ; and the centre feathers of the tail are 

 the longest." There is a fine specimen in the collection at 

 the British Museum. 



Females of this hybrid, as I have before mentioned, 

 appear to be much more rare than the males. Two 

 examples are said to be preserved in the Royal Museum 

 at Stockholm, and one in the Museum at Geneva, which 

 M. Necker, in his Memoir on the Birds of Geneva, says, 

 was obtained from the pine forests of Mount Jura in 

 winter ; there is also in the same collection a male from 

 St. Gothard, which was bought in the market of Lausanne 

 in September, 1834. It deserves at the same time to be 

 mentioned that Klein, in his OVA AVIUM, published at 



