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Title: A history of British birds / by the Rev. F. O. Morris
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Morris, F. O. (Francis Orpen), 1810-1893
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London : Groombridge

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and sides of theneck, is another. Individuals more or less mottled, patched,and speckled with white are by no means unfrequeut. Avariety called the Bohemian Pheasant is of a stone-colour,with the usual markings Cream-coloured ones are also metwith. One is mentioned by G. B. Clarke, Esq., in *T)ieNaturalist, volume ii., page 182, which had a silvery appearancewhen the sim shone on it, and the tail was of a darker colourchaii isual: it was shot in Woburn Park. The hen bird sometimes j^artially assumes the plumage ofthe cock, and m these csises savij Yarrell, *they may be l?aov.nby their partial want of brilliancy of tint; the golden-redfeathers on the breast/ generally v/ai\t the contrast oi thebroad dark .olvcr-iike luai-gin; the legs iiiid fed rctaini^jg theirsmaller and more slender female chiiraetor, and ar^ withoutspurs. Hylrids liave occurred from allianrep vvilh tlte CominonPnwi, ilu Black G-ro !.-• . tjie Turkey, the vrumea Lowl, thoGolden Phe.tsant, and the iSiiver Pheasant.
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CA-PEHCALI. J 1S5 CAPERCAILLIE. WOOD GEOUSE. Tetran urogaUtiSy PfnvaNT. MontagU. Urogallua major, BkissON. Teirao—From the Hindoostanee. UrogatUs, Urus—A bull. Gallus—A Cock. This chieftain Grouse, the pride of the northern forest, haslong since disappeared from the scene where his race for as^esdwelt: the gallant Capercailzie of Scotland is no more. Theyear 45 was a memorable one in the records of the clan,for then he last was seen in Strath Spey, though he held hisown in Strath Glass and Glen Moriston till 1769. The warningto Lochiel might have been appaed to the bird, the Lowlandsproved the destruction of both. Still he claims a place in my^History of British Birds, and though the native branch ofhis family is extinct, collateral ones continue to hold swayin other lands, and individuals from them have several timesbeen introduced with a view to their re-naturalization here,and with some success. In 1838 and 1839, Lord Breadaibanereceived fifty-lour adult birds from Norway; an

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