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Arms on Nov. 18th, 1884, and is now in the Leicester Museum 

 (M. Brown, Zool. 1885, p. 26) ; while a fourth was shot on Mr. 

 Greene's estate (adjoining Mr. Plowden's property) about the 

 same time (Mr. W. F. Plowden, in litt.). 



36. — One, shot at Glen App, Ayrshire, some time prior to 

 1886. This bird was formerly the property of Mrs. Hunter, but 

 is now in the possession of Mr. J. Charlesworth. A fine coloured 

 plate of it is given by Mr. J. G. Millais in the folio edition of 

 ' Game Birds and Shooting Sketches' (facing p. 34). 



37.— One (a cock with lyrate tail), killed by Mr. C. R. E. Rad- 

 clyffe some time previous to 1888, at Eftcombe, in Dorset. This 

 bird is mentioned by Mr. J. C. Mansel Pleydel in the ' Birds of 

 Dorset,' p. 68, as existing in Mr. Radclyffe's collection at Hyde, 

 near Wareham. It was, however, destroyed in a fire which took 

 place at Hyde House in 1887. Mr. C. E. Radclyffe informs me 

 that other birds of the same brood were seen, and he believes 

 that one or more were shot at the same place. 



38. — One, shot by Mr. J. Turner near Sutton Coldfield, Bir- 

 mingham, in 1888. This bird, supposed to be the produce of a 

 Blackcock and hen Pheasant, was exhibited by Mr. Turner at a 

 meeting of the Birmingham Natural History Society, and was 

 recorded and described by M. Suchetet (t. c. p. 91). 



39. — One in the collection of the Earl of Home at Douglas 

 Castle, Lanarkshire. Recorded by Lord Walsingham and Sir R. 

 Payne Gallwey in the ' Badminton Library ' volume on " Shoot- 

 ing, Moor and Marsh," p. 48, but no date is given. 



40. — One shot, near Lyndhurst, Hants, in March, 1891, and 

 recorded by Mr. Bradburne in the ' Field ' (' Birds of Hampshire, 

 &c.' p. 265). 



41, 42. — Two, shot at Monreith, Wigtonshire, by Mr. J. Henry 

 Stock. The first was killed on Oct. 10th, 1893, when Partridge 

 shooting on a farm called Dowies ; the second on Oct. 27th, 

 about a mile from where the first was shot. Both birds are now 

 in Mr. Stock's collection at the White Hall, Tarporley, Cheshire 

 (Mr. J. H. Stock, in litt.). Not previously recorded. 



43. — One, shot by Capt. M. Murphy at Bunessan, Mull, in 

 January, 1896, was exhibited by Mr. J. E. Harting at a meeting 

 of the Linnean Society on Feb. 20th, 1896. It is apparently the 

 same bird which was subsequently exhibited by Mr. J. G. Millais 



