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18. — One (a hen) killed on Dec. 19th, 1855, in Lord Stamford's 

 coverts at Enville, near Stourbridge (Suchetet, t. c. p. 90). After- 

 wards became the property of Lady Lambert (now Lady Grey). 

 I have not been able to ascertain whether this specimen was 

 destroyed in the fire at Enville Hall in November, 1904. 



19.— One (a young cock) shot by Mr. F. E. Eodd on Sept. 

 24th, 1867, from a brood on the Bodmin Moors. This was the 

 produce of a cock Pheasant and Greyhen (' Zoologist,' 1867, 

 p. 991; 'Birds of Cornwall,' p. 76). Mr. E. H. Rodd states 

 {I. c.) that on several occasions he heard of and received speci- 

 mens of this hybrid from the Bodmin Moors. 



20, 21. — Two (a cock and hen), the property of Sir Ralph 

 Wilmot, of Chaddesden Hall, near Derby, were shot by the late 

 Sir Henry Sacheverel Wilmot in Chaddesden Wood,* probably 

 not later than about 1870. The cock has the head, neck, breast, 

 and under surface black, with a violet sheen ; back, wings, and 

 tail buff with brown vermiculations, and black barring on the 

 fan-shaped tail. The hen has the crown brown, with black 

 barring ; cheeks and neck black ; breast deep rufous brown, 

 with black bars and narrow buff edges ; abdomen buff, boldly 

 spangled with dark brown. Spurs, as usual, absent in both birds. 



22, 23. — Two in the Calke Abbey collection, the property of 

 Sir Vauncey H. Crewe, also from the same locality in Derby- 

 shire, where broods were reared in two consecutive years (Sir 

 R. Wilmot, in litt.). 



24. — One, shot in Newstead Park, Notts, in 1874 ; now in the 

 collection at Newstead Abbey (Mr. J. Whitaker, in litt.). Cross 

 between Blackcock and hen Pheasant. 



25. — One, shot at Papplewick, Notts, in December, 1874, by 

 Mr. Rutter, now in the collection of Mr. J. H. Brown, of Old 

 Moote Hall, Wheeler Gate, Nottingham (Mr. J. Whitaker, in litt.). 

 Same cross as preceding bird. 



26. — One (a hen) shot in the autumn of 1874 by the late 

 Mr. A. G. Corbet in Shropshire, and now in the writer's pos- 

 session. This bird, which was set up by Shaw, of Shrewsbury, 

 has not been previously recorded. As the only satisfactory 

 figures of this hybrid represent male birds, it has been thought 



* Not on Breadsall Moors, as recorded in the ' Victoria History of the 

 County of Derby,' i. p. 143. 



