but she was never observed to be accompanied by a Blackcock,
or any other of her species. In November last a bird]
was shot bn the manor adjoining Memngtbn^^(^t%i^ to
J . A. Lloyd, E s<j4 resembling the Black-game in some!
particulars, and7 the Pheasant in others. I|§É(I December!
another bird was shot in the Mejrington covers, resembling!
the former, but smaller ; this, which is a female, is now ill
my collection*;! beautifully preserved by M. Shaw, of Shrewsbury
Z. S,* 18135, p. 02); The figure given below]
represents this bird, Mr. Byton having allowed the use of
his specimen for that purpose; He further remarks, that]
he had also seen another specimen, killed hear-:€brwenl
in Merionethshire, and then in the collection of Sir Rowland
Hill, Bart.
In December, 1837, Mr. John Leadbeater exhibited at]
the Zoological Society a male hybrid' between the Pheasant
and Black Grouse. •. It was observed that this was the third
specimen which had been sent to the Society for exhibition
within a comparatively short space of time. The first bird,
from Cornwall, was more of a Grouse in appearance than a
Pheasant; the second, Mr. -Eyton’s bird, from Shropshire,
was more Pheasant-like; but the present bird was decidedly
intermediate, exhibiting characters belonging to both. The
head, neck and breast, were of a rich’dark maroon colour,;
the feathers on the breast shewing the darker crescentic,
fjpg • the upper part of the tarsi were covered with .feathers;
the back and wings -mottled blackish-grey, like that of a
young Black-cock after his first moult, but .with some
indications of brown ; the feathers of the tail rather short,
but straight, pointed, graduated, and Pheasant-like. It
was remarked that this bird more closely .Resembled the
hybrid figured by White than either *pf the specimens
previously exhibited. This bird was understood to have been
killed near Alnwick, and it lys now by the liberality of the
Duke of Northumberland deposited in the British Museum.
Dr. Edward Moore, in his * Nptes on the Birds of Devonshire,’
published in the ƒ Magazine of Natural History ’ for
the year 1887> says, that a hybrid of this kind was shot at
Whidey, near Plymouth, by the Bev. Mr. Morshead. A
male Pheasant, a female grouse, and o^e young, had been,
observed in .company for’ spine time by the keeper. Mr.
Morshead shot the Pheasant, and, in a few" days, the young
hybrid; but the "Grouse escaped. The young bird bears
the marks of both parents; but the most_ prominent
characters are thoseijpf the Grouse. The space above the
eye, however, is not bare,'as in the Grouse, but .entirely
feathered, as in the Pheasant; the whole of thbineck is
covered with black feathers; somewhat "mottled; the tail is
not forked, but fan-shaped, and half as long, as that Ilf the
Pheasant; the .tarsi are bare, as in the Pheasant; the
colour is generally, except the .nyeck, that of the Pheasant;!
but it has the white .snot fgu the shoulders, as in the Grouse.
Another example, now figured from a flo u red draw-*