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have occurred at Howick, CuUercoats, Fulwell, Callerton Fell, 

 "Wallsend, and Westoe. 



6. YiKGiKiAif Quail. C. Vieginiantjs, {ZinncBus.) 



Ortyx Virginiana, Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 2, II., 391. 

 ,, ,, Macgillivray, Hist. Brit. Bii'ds, I., 228. 



This is an introduced species. A specimen was shot Octo- 

 ber 2nd, 1841, at Rothbury, out of a "covey of Partridges." 

 This example is in my collection. It is an adult female and had, 

 when fresh, all the appearance of having reared a brood that 

 year ; and it may be questioned whether the birds with which 

 it was associated were Quails or Partridges. 



In the early part of this century several pairs of Virginian 

 Quails were turned out in Norfolk, by the late Earl of Leicester . 

 but these, according to Mr. Stevenson, in his "Birds of E'er- 

 folk," have long since died out. In 1840, a number were libe- 

 rated in the neighbourhood of Windsor, by His Eoyal Highness 

 the late Prince Consort (" Harting's Handbook of British Birds," 

 p. 130). Oiu' example may probably be one of these introduced 

 birds, or the progeny of such. 



A considerable number of this Quail were set at liberty on the 

 banks of the Coquet, a little above "Warkworth, in the spring of 

 1872, by Mr. "W. E. Pape, gun-manufacturer, Newcastle, and I 

 am informed that several broods were reared the same year, and 

 that they are nesting again this year (1873), and are apparently 

 going on very favourably. 



Fahily. PHASIANID^E, Vigors. 

 95. PHASIANUS, Linnmis. 



7. Pheasant. P. Colchiotjs, Limmus. 



Phasianus Colchicus, Bewick, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 1847, I., 

 339. 



,, „ Yarrell, Hist.Brit.Birds, Ed. 2, II., 310. 



A resident. The Pheasant, having no right to be considered 

 an indigenous British bird, should not perhaps have been included 



