TURKEY PH£ASAKT. 
to the middle ones by membranes. The fea- 
tlicrs were all double; one firm, the other a 
little distin£t downy feather, springing both 
from the same stem. 
" I was favoured," concludes Edwards, 
" with this uncommon production, by the 
curious and worthy Henry Se^-nier, Esq. of 
Hanford, Dorset; to whom I am greatly 
obliged on many other accounts. There \vcrc 
three or four of them discovered in the woods 
near his house, and he had the luck to shoot 
one of them in Odlober 1759 ; which bird is 
on my table while I write this description. 1 
have already given some account of it to the 
Royal Society, laying the bird and drawing 
before them at the same time ; who have been 
pleased to order it's figure and description to be 
published in the Pliilosophical Transactions for 
the year 1760.'* 
BufFon, in his account of the Turkey, thus 
notices this Turkey Pheasant — " Edwards," 
says he, " mentions another hybrid produced 
between the Turkey and the Pheasant. The 
individual which he describes, was shot in the 
woods 
