356 TETRAONIDJB. 



Zool. Proc., 1834, p. 52. This bird belonged to Sir 

 William Call. 



In 1835, T. C. Eyton, Esq., residing near Wellington, 

 Shropshire, sent up for exhibition to the Zoological So- 

 ciety, a hybrid 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 Merrington 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, that he had also seen another specimen, killed 

 near Corwen, in Merionethshire, and then in the collection 

 of Sir Rowland Hill, Bart. 



In the first volume of the Magazine of Zoology and 

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

 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 



