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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 black- 

 ish 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 de- 

 posited 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 was 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 cha- 

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

 however, is not bare, as in the Grouse, but entirely fea- 

 thered, 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 the shoulders, as in the Grouse. 

 I am indebted to the Rev. W. S. Hore, of Stoke, near 

 Devonport, for the knowledge of two other specimens, 

 killed in Devonshire ; one, a fine male, in his own collec- 



