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INDEX-CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS 



No. 18. Rose-coloured Starling. Pastor roseus. 



Maxe {upper). Killed at Elswick whilst it was 

 feeding on a dunghill 26th July, 1855. 



Male (lower). "Was shot on the Black Fell at 

 Gateshead, 15th Sept., 1856. 



Preserved and bequeathed by J. Hancock. 



Eeceived Jan., 1897. 

 Remarlcs. — This group is figured in Mr. Hancock's 

 Catalogue of Birds of Northumberland and Durham. 



,, 19. Pallas' Sand Grouse, Syrrhaptes 



paradoxus, (Pallas). 

 Male and Female. 



1 and 2 were shot out of a flock of 12 or 14 near 



Thropton, Rothbury, Northumberland, on 21st May, 



1863. 



3. The Male with its mouth open was shot at Cow- 

 pen, Northumberland, about the 29th June, 1863. 



4. The Female with the head turned was shot near 

 Berwick-upon-Tweed about the 25th September, 1863. 



,, 20. Common Pheasant. Phasianus Colcliicus, 



Linn. 

 Pale or Bohemian variety, shot at Trewhitt, near 

 Eothbury, Northumberland, Jan., 1884. 

 Presented to J. H. by Sir W. G. Armstrong, C.B., F.R.S. 



„ 21. Common Partridge and Brown Variety, 



Perdix cinerea, Charlton, and 

 Perdix m.ontana, Brisson. 



1. Common Partridge. Male, 



2. ,, ,, Downy state. 



3. Brown variety {Perdix montand), shot at Wid- 

 drington, Northumberland, about Jan. 16, 1871. 



This specimen, with No. 1 , was bought in a poulterer's 

 shop in Newcastle. 



