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and were evidently treated as strangers by them. No 

 doubt, in course of time they will become assimilated, 

 and the black and white feathers will disappear in favour 

 of the red. 



Apparently this Red form is but slightly affected by 

 any geological difference of soil where it onlv occurs at 



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AN OLD HIGHLANDER FROM SUTHERLAND. 



intervals in the bog-lands. Out of a large series of Irish 

 specimens that I have examined I find but little difference 

 in birds from the swampy ground of the north and south 

 and those killed on the high mountains of Mayo, Conne- 

 mara, and Donegal, though winter specimens from the 

 latter counties certainly do show a greater inclination to 

 display white feathers on the breast and cheeks. An 



