. Game birds and shooting-sketches : illustrating the habits, modes of capture, stages of plumage and the hybirds & varieties which occur amongst them . and the Partridge in the possession of Mrs. Allan,of Elgin, There were also two birds supposed to beof this cross shot near Fermoy, Co. Cork, Ireland; but inneither case have I been able to trace their present resting-place. Captain Hughes-Hallett, of my regiment, killed al)ird near Stirling, , which he thought was one; buteventually I discovered it in the possession of Mr. Edwards, of Morningside, Edinburgh, when it 152 GAM
. Game birds and shooting-sketches : illustrating the habits, modes of capture, stages of plumage and the hybirds & varieties which occur amongst them . and the Partridge in the possession of Mrs. Allan,of Elgin, There were also two birds supposed to beof this cross shot near Fermoy, Co. Cork, Ireland; but inneither case have I been able to trace their present resting-place. Captain Hughes-Hallett, of my regiment, killed al)ird near Stirling, , which he thought was one; buteventually I discovered it in the possession of Mr. Edwards, of Morningside, Edinburgh, when it 152 GAME BIRDS AND SHOOTING-SKETCHES proved to be a very curious melanistic variety of tliePartridge. There does not seem to Ije any reason wliy the Grouseand the Partridge should not occasionally interbreed, l)ut Ihave never seen an example. The blood-red variety ofthe Partridge, of which there are several beautiful examplesin the Newcastle Museum, sometimes leads sportsmen tothink they have got a hybrid of the al)Ove-named have taken several journeys in the hope of discoveringthis new cross, Init in every case the birds proved to
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