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PRACTICAL TAXIDERMY. 



the collection ? or does it teach anything to put cards in the 

 "Local" or "British" divisions of the parrot cases to say- 

 that no parrots occur (out of cages) in either Leicestershire 

 or Britain ? Again, what can this teach ? 



Well, we will take a representative group — say, the order 

 Gallince, or game-birds, and, taking our own county of Leicester- 

 shire as an example, we shall find that, although, there are nearly 

 four hundred species of this order known, but eleven at the 

 very outside are claimed as having occurred in Britain, whilst 

 but three of these are commonly found in the county. 

 I give their names and values under each heading : 



Ptarmigan 



Red Grouse 



Capercaillie 



Black Grouse 



Pheasant 



Red-legged Partridge . 



Barbary „ 



Partridge 



Virginian Colin . . . 



Quail 



Andalusian Hemipode 



LOCAL. 



No. 

 Has occurred. 



No. 

 Has occurred. 



Yes. 



Yes. 



Said to have 



once occurred. 



Yes. 



No. 

 Has occurred. 



No. 



BRITISH. I FOREIGN. 



Yes. 



Yes. 

 Yes. 

 Yes. 

 Yes. 

 Yes. 



Doubtful. 



Yes. 

 Doubtful. 



Yes. 

 Doubtful. 



Yes. 



Yes.* 



Yes. 



Yes. 



Yes. 



Yes. 



Yes. 



Yes. 

 Yes. 



Yes. 



Yes. 



Or, putting it into a tabular form, as if supposing that the 

 whole four hundred known species could be shown, we should 

 have it presented thus : 



ORDER— GALLi:Nr^. 



(400 Species.) 



FOREIGN. 



BRITISH. 



LOCAL. 



That is to say, that, although it was wished to claim the 3ft. 6in. 

 division in height, of indefinite length (really ten feet when 



' Formerly indigenous to Britain, but now found in Sweden, &c. 



