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There is also a fine pair of " Pied " pheasants, a hybrid 

 between the common and the white species, which latter is 

 itself an inhabitant of the forest. 



On the third of March, 1866, I found a pheasant's nest 

 containing three eggs, in rather a curious position : it was 

 placed on the top of a large pollard willow, overhanging the 

 water. 



Perdix cinerea. 



Partridge. 



EGG OBSERVED. 



May 23rd, 1865. 

 Aprd 2ud, 1866. 

 May 2nd, 1868. 

 1870. 



Such a well-known bird that it is almost difficult to find 

 anything to say about it, which has not been said already 

 hundreds of times. 



As their habits fit them especially for arable land, they 

 are of course abundant here. 



A white variety of the partridge is said to have been shot 

 at Devizes in the autumn of 1868. 



