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am indebted to my friend Mr. A. Burn Murdoch for the three specimens above mentioned, which 

 he shot out of the same covey about the 30th October 1875, on the Gartencaber estate, in Perth- 

 shire. All three of these birds have the white horseshoe ; and two have chin-spots and the neck 

 pure white, and white superciliary marks ; the third has the ordinary brown chin- and throat- 

 mark and brown superciliaries. Mr. Burn Murdoch informs me that these are the first to his 

 knowledge that have been shot on Gartencaber. The remainder of the covey were, as far as he 

 could judge, similarly marked ; and he had opportunities of seeing them on several occasions. It 

 will be interesting to note the increase of this variety in its numbers, if it is indeed increasing." 



The specimens figured are : — on the one Plate an old male and a young bird in change ; and 

 on the second Plate a female with young in down. 



In the preparation of the above article I have examined the following specimens : — 



E Mus. H. E. Dresser. 



a, <s ach Hampstead, February 1st, 1870 {Davy), b, 6 , c, ? . Sherringham, Norfolk, October 28th, 1876 

 (H. M. Upcher). d, 6 , e, %juv. Aboyne, Scotland (Waters). 



E Mus. Howard Saunders. 

 a, 6 ad. Naples (Doderlein). 



