. A history of British birds . as Rypeorre or Riporre. A representation of oneof these hybrids is given on the opposite page from Nilssons Skandinavisk Fauna.* A far rarer hybrid is the one betweenthe Black and the Hazel Grouse {Bonasa hetulina) describedand exhibited by Mr. Dresser (P. Z. S., 1876, p. 345). In this country the hybrids best known are thosebetween the Black Grouse and the Pheasant. The * Mr. Collett of Christiania maintains, in opposition to some other naturalists,that this hybrid is the result of a union between the male of Lagopus albiis andtlie female of Tetrao tetrix; and h
. A history of British birds . as Rypeorre or Riporre. A representation of oneof these hybrids is given on the opposite page from Nilssons Skandinavisk Fauna.* A far rarer hybrid is the one betweenthe Black and the Hazel Grouse {Bonasa hetulina) describedand exhibited by Mr. Dresser (P. Z. S., 1876, p. 345). In this country the hybrids best known are thosebetween the Black Grouse and the Pheasant. The * Mr. Collett of Christiania maintains, in opposition to some other naturalists,that this hybrid is the result of a union between the male of Lagopus albiis andtlie female of Tetrao tetrix; and his arguments are given at great length in his Remarks on the Ornithology of Northern Norway, published in the Forhand-linger Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania, 1873, pp. 238-251, and partly repro-duced in Mr. Dressers Birds of Europe, vii. pp. 213-216. The readershould bear in mind that whenever Mr. Collett uses our word * Ptarmigan in the above pages, he refers to the Willow-Grouse, and not to Lagopus miUus. BLACK GROUSE. 69. first on record is the bird noticed by Gilbert White, ofSelborne, of which a coloured representation is given insome of the editions of his work. The subject being thennew, the real character of that specimen was a matter ofdoubt, till more recent experience, and other examples,seemed to confirm its origin. In June, 1834, the late called the attention of the members present at ameeting of the Zoological Society to a specimen of a hybridbird, between the common Pheasant and the Grey-hen,which was exhibited. Its legs w^ere partially feathered;it bore on the shoulder a white spot, and its middle tail-feathers were lengthened. It was bred in Cornwall, andbelonged to Sir William Call (P. Z. S., 1834, p. 52). In 1835, the late Mr. T. C. Eyton, residing near Wel-lington, Shropshire, sent up for exhibition to the ZoologicalSociety a hybrid bird between the cock Pheasant and theGrey-hen, with a note, as follows :— For some years past,a single Grey-hen
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