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and laid five eggs, which the keeper’s boy sought for and found. They 
were fertile, and it appeared that their mother had mated with some cock 
pheasant, as they produced five hybrid chickens, which resembled her less 
than him. A fox (quite a rarity about here) killed one, the old hen killed 
another, two more were caged in an aviary, and the fifth incautiously 
strayed to Northrepps, and was shot at Hungry Hills and presented to the 
Norwich Museum by Mr. Hoare. I believe it is the specimen recorded in 
the ‘ Zoologist’ (S. S. 2057), though the statement that it proved a female 
on dissection surprises me very much, it being such a fine and large 
bird. To-day (December 7th) I have, in the flesh, another hybrid fowl 
and pheasant from the same woods, at Trimingham, being the second 
obtained from there this season, and both from the same brood. It is a 
small bird, and the keeper gives a gray-coloured hen and a cock pheasant 
as its parentage. In all the cases of this not uncommon hybrid which 
have come under my notice the pheasant is said to have been the father. 
Although there is no county where there have been more, both wild and 
tame, than in Norfolk, I suppose they have been reared with success in 
other places, and my father saw a good many, tame bred, at Mr. Hart's, 
naturalist, Christchurch.—J. H. Gurney, jun. 
Macqueen’s Bustard and Juggur Falcon.—I beg to inform all readers of 
the ‘ Zoologist’ that nothing was further from my intention than to say or 
infer that our able, excellent and conscientious naturalist at Norwich, 
Mr. T. E. Gunn, was capable of trying to pass off the Macqueen’s bustard 
as British, knowing the same to be foreign. Mr. Gunn received it to re-stuff: 
it was not in his hands for sale; and his first remark when I saw it was that 
he believed it had been mounted from a skin. I have made a somewhat 
special study of what are termed doubtful British birds, and I know what 
mischief may be done by leaving such a pretender as this unchallenged and 
uncorrected. Whilst on this subject, let me thank Mr. Jeffery for his 
answer to my note. I feel it is more satisfactory to both of us that the 
Juggur falcon’s identity should be set at rest, and the mistake corrected. 
If Mr. Jeffery is able to turn to ‘ Land and Water’ newspaper for the 25th of 
July, 1868, he will find it had been recorded under its rightful name —Id. 
Last Appearances of the Bustard in England.—* A bustard was observed 
several times by a friend of mine on the downs near Brighton during the 
week preceding Christmas Day. I should like to hear whether it was seen 
by any of your subseribers.”"—‘ Field’ of Jan. 15, 1876. ‘In your edition 
of January 15th a correspondent speaks of a bustard having been seen on 
the downs near Brighton the week before Christmas. I can now inform you 
that a bustard, doubtless the same bird, was obtained in the vicinity—. e., 
some ten or twelve miles from this place—on Friday, the 14th of January, 
and the specimen is now in the possession of Mr. B. Bates, naturalist, &c., 
of this town. ‘The bird is a female, apparently about two years old—at all 
