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advisable to give an illustration of this bird (cf. Plate IV.), show- 

 ing the light colouring of the throat and sides of the neck, the 

 Pheasant-like contour of the head, and the characteristic fan- 

 shaped tail. 



[Mr. W. E. de Winton informs me that the Eev. Josiah Lea, 

 formerly Eector of Wyre Forest, also had a specimen, killed in 

 Wyre Forest, on the borders of Shropshire and Worcestershire, 

 many years ago, but up to the present he has not been able to 

 ascertain what has become of it.] 



27. — One, shot near Hunstanton, Norfolk, and preserved in 

 Mr. HamonL'Estrange's collection. According to Mr. L 'Estrange, 

 it was killed " twenty years ago " (in litt., fide Suchetet), i. e. circa 

 1876. 



28. — One, bought in the Plymouth market by Mr. J. Gat- 

 combe, and said to have been killed on the borders of Dartmoor, 

 Devonshire, in October, 1878 (Zool. 1879, p. 60). This bird 

 afterwards passed into the possession of Mr. J. Whitaker, and 

 was sold on May 22nd, 1890, at a sale of duplicate specimens 

 (Lot 111) to Mr. Lamb, of London. 



[Mr. E. Cambridge Phillips, writing in 'The Zoologist' for 

 1883, p. 801, states that some of these hybrids were killed in 

 Carmarthen " some years ago," but were not preserved.] 



29. — One, a cross between a Blackcock and hen Pheasant, was 

 bought in Leadenhall Market in 1883, and exhibited by Mr. 

 Burton at a meeting of the Zoological Society (P.Z.S. 1883, 

 p. 578). 



30. — One, bought in the Plymouth market in October, 1883, 

 by Mr. J. Gatcombe, which subsequently passed into Mr. F. 

 Bond's collection (Zool. 1884, p. 54). 



31. — One in Mr. Edward Hart's collection at Christchurch, 

 dated Jan. 16th, 1884 (' Birds of Hampshire and the Isle of 

 Wight,' p. 265). 



[" Six at least," according to Mr. H. E. Forrest, were obtained 

 in the south-west district of Shropshire, between Bishops Castle 

 and Craven Arms. Of these further particulars are to hand 

 respecting four.] 



32-35. — Two were shot in the season of 1884-5, and are now 

 in the possession of Mr. W. F. Plowden, of Plowden Hall, North 

 Lydbury ; a third was shot by Major Gregory Knight near Craven 



