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of five; one of them remained in the possession of J. A. 

 Lloyd, Esq., of Leaton Knolls : the other three, with the 

 old Grey Hen, fell victims to a farmers gun, and were 

 consequently destined to the table. Mr. Eyton further 

 remarks, at page 101, that he had also seen another speci- 

 men killed near Corwen, in Merionethshire, and then 

 in the collection of Sir Rowland Hill, Bart. 



In the first volume of the Magazine of Zoology and 

 Botany, William Thompson, Esq., of Belfast, describes in 

 detail another hybrid that had been shot in Wigtonshire, 

 and was preserved for Sir Andrew Agnew, Bart., M.P. 

 This bird was shot in a wild state at Lochnaw, where 

 it had been seen several times on the wing by persons 

 who imagined it to be a wild Turkey. Pheasants and 

 Black Grouse are numerous in the surrounding planta- 



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