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following words : "I know some old Scotch gentlemen, 

 who say they remember when young there were in Scot- 

 land both the Cock of the Wood, as also the Hybridus : " 

 and, at page 245, Mr. Fox has given a figure of this 

 last-named bird, from a specimen in the Newcastle Museum, 

 which was engraved on copper by Robert Bewick from 

 a drawing made by his father Thomas Bewick. The 

 bird has since been figured by Gould, Werner, and others. 

 The figure of the bird given on the next page, was taken 

 from a coloured representation illustrating the Fauna of 

 Scandinavia by M. Nilsson. 



A beautiful specimen of this bird, exhibited by Mr. Gould 

 at the Zoological Society in the spring of 1831, was thus 

 briefly described in comparison with the Capercaillie, in the 

 Proceedings of the Society for that year, at page 73. " In 

 the Tetrao medius the beak is black ; the shining feathers 

 on the front of the neck are of a rich orleans-plum colour ; 

 and of the eighteen feathers of the tail the outer ones are 

 the longest. In the Cock of the Wood the beak is white ; 

 the feathers on the front of the breast are of a dark glossy 

 green ; and the centre feathers of the tail are the longest." 

 There is a fine specimen in the collection at the British 

 Museum. 



Females of this hybrid, as I have before mentioned, 

 appear to be much more rare than the males. Two 

 examples are said to be preserved in the Koyal Museum 

 at Stockholm, and one in the Museum at Geneva, which 

 M. Necker, in his Memoir on the Birds of Geneva, says, 

 was obtained from the pine forests of Mount Jura in 

 winter ; there is also in the same collection a male from 

 St. Gothard, which was bought in the market of Lausanne 

 in September 1834. It deserves at the same time to be 

 mentioned that Klein in his OVA AVIUM, published at 



