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bred between a cock pheasant and some 

 domestic fowl. When I came to talk with 

 the keeper who brought it, he told me 

 that some pea-hens had been known last 

 Summer to haunt the coppices and coverts 

 where this mule was found. 



Mr. Elmer, of Farnham, the famous 

 game painter, was employed to take an 

 exact copy of this curious bird. 



N. B, It ought to be mentioned that 

 some good judges have imagined this bird 

 to have been a stray grous or black cock ; 

 it is, however, to be observed, that Mr. W. 

 remarks, that its legs and feet were naked, 

 whereas those of the grous are feathered 

 to the toes. White. 



JVlr. Latham observes, that '* pea-hens, 

 after they have done laying, sometimes 

 assume the plumage of the male bird," and 

 has given a figure of the male-feathered 

 pea-hen now to be seen in the Leverian 

 Museum ; and M. Salerne remarks, that 

 " the hen pheasant, when she has done 



