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ordinary species. Mr. Mayes, writing to me from Elvedon, 

 stated that "the Golden Pheasant will cross with the common 

 pheasant ; we have had two or three instances of their doing 

 so the last two years ; but it is rare, as we have had Golden 

 Pheasants turned out the last ten years or more, and never 

 knew them to cross with any other pheasant before." 



The vignette shows the head of a singular variety of the 

 common pheasant which occasionally appears in the coverts 

 at Elsenham and elsewhere ; it remarkably resembles the 

 P. hagenhecJii, which has never been introduced into Europe 

 in a living state. 



