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male pheasant. The yellowish crest of the head was about 

 half the length of that of the adult golden pheasant, and 

 more of a buff colour, but, as the spurs of this bird were 

 of a considerable size, I consider it to be full-grown. The 

 red and black tipped feathers spring from the nape of the 

 neck, the tippet is also shorter and duller in colour, the 

 dark-green feathers of the back are less in bulk, the feathers 

 covering the lower part of back and root of the tail are 

 also of a yellowish buff like the crest, and the tail feathers are 

 very long and broad, of the same shape and colour as the 

 golden pheasant, but had dark bars crossing them like the 

 common pheasant, the long tail coverts being of a brownish 

 red colour. The breast is not so bright a red as that of the 

 golden pheasant, but more of the reddish-brown colour of the 

 coverts of shoulder of wing. Legs stouter and longer than 

 golden pheasant, and it had a spur about half an inch long 

 on one of the legs. The bill is also of a dark colour like the 

 common pheasant. 



Some thirty years ago several birds of this description were 

 noticed at Cambo, Fifeshire, after several golden pheasants 

 had escaped from the aviaries there ; and when eggs of the 

 common pheasant were collected for hatching, it was found 

 that various young birds were hatched which gradually 

 showed a plumage like that described, and were therefore 

 believed to be hybrids. One of them was preserved by 

 Captain Fielding. I also exhibited to the Society, in February 

 1875, another and beautiful bird of very similar character to 

 the one now exhibited, which was shot by Capt. Kinloch, yr. 

 of Gilmerton, at Gilmerton, near Drem, Haddingtonshire. 

 The bird had been observed for four seasons, and about five 

 years before one or two golden pheasant cocks were let loose 

 on the estate. 



(4.) Mergiis cdhellus, the Smew. — A beautiful male bird 

 shot on the 25th January at Bowhill, the seat of his Grace 

 the Duke of Buccleuch, in Selkirkshire. The bird is one of 

 our winter visitors. 



(5.) Larus glaucus, the Glaucous Gull. — A female shot on 

 the 20th January at Musselburgh. Various specimens of 

 this gull, and also of Buteo lagojyus, to which I referred at last 



