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WHITE GROUSE AND WHITE PARTRIDGES 
IN YORKSHIRE. 
Rev. H, A. MACPHERSON, M.A., M.B.O.U., Etc., 
sluthor of the‘ Visitation of Pallas’s Sand-Grouse to Scotland, ete. 
In the course of exploring old records in search of notes bearing on 
the Lake District, I happened to come across the accompanying 
notes, which may, perhaps, possess some local interest for Yorkshire 
naturalists. 
(1) Lagopus scoticus. The ‘Carlisle Patriot’ of October 25th, 
1828, supplies the following short paragraph :— 
‘A curious specimen of the grouse or heath fowl was last 
week shot by Richard Metcalf, gamekeeper to L. Topham, Esq., 
at Middleham. Its belly was entirely white, its eyes and legs 
a beautiful pink, and the rest of its body of a delicate fawn 
colour.’ 
(2) Perdix cinerea. A note on this species appears in the 
‘Gentleman’s Magazine’ of 1797, Pp. 342 :— 
‘ NaTuRAL Curiosity.—There are now at Henry B. Barnard’s, 
Esq., at South Cave, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, seven 
partridges, four of which are of the most delicate milk-white, 
without a single coloured feather. The remaining three are 
pied. The covey consisted of eight. The above seven were 
taken by a net in September last, the eighth escaped. They 
are kept in a place built for the purpose of keeping pheasants 
and birds of that kind, and do not appear to suffer at all from 
their confinement.’ 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
We hate to have to record the death, after a long period of ill-health, - 
Mr. Henry B. Brad , a native of Gateshead and for many years a well-know: 
ition. e 
Royal, the Geo ological, the Chemical, and other Societies, and a contributor to 
Many scientific publications. He died - nae roth, in "his fifty-sixth year. 
pot 
_ Two north- -country geologists — received honour abt Pigg 0 from Lis 
Geological 1 Society of London the anniversary mee a2 February 20t 
the Lyell Medal was pr resented to Pol T. McK. Hughes, -, and a portion 
of the Lyell Donation Fund to Mr. G. W. Lampinght of Bridlington Quay. 
April 1891, 
