292 NOVITATES ZOOLOQIOAE XXIV. 1917. 



On the labels of the specimens from the Dresser Collection, which were 

 once in the Lilford Museum, the Arab name is given as " Hadjel-es-Sahara '* 

 and " Raragh." The former is evidently' nonsense, for " Hadjel " is the Gaccabis 

 (rectius Alecloris — see above), but " Raragh " may be the genuine name of this 

 species. The label also says that the Britons of Mogador call the Francolin 

 " English Partridge," which woiild imply that it loas not rare there — but why 

 did Riggenbach not get it ? 



There is an excellent plate of this form in Dresser's Suppl. B. Europe, pi. 703. 



The occurrence of this tropical species in Marocco is only known along the 

 Atlantic coast. Like all the other representatives of tropical species, it must 

 have found its way there along the coast of the Western Sahara, for, as I have 

 pointed out before, all of them are either found only in the north of Marocco, 

 Algeria, and Tunisia, or in the west. The other species to which I refer are : 



Telephonus sencgalus cucullatus. Northern Marocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. 



Pycnonotus harbatus barbatus. Northern Marocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. 



Asio capensis tingitanus, Marocco, northernmost Algeria. 



Melierax canoras mehibates. Mogador to Mazagan in Western Marocco. 



StreptopeUa senegalensis pJioenicophila, Northern Oasis of Western Sahara. 



Otis arabs, Marocco and West Algeria. 



If any of these birds had crossed the Sahara, they would be most frequent 

 in the southern parts of Africa Minor. 



X. THE SYNONYMY OF TETRAO PARVIROSTRIS. 



In the Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 66, Mr. Ogilvie-Grant quotes as synonyms 

 of Tetrao parvirostris, " Tetrao urogalliis, var. rupestris and T. u., var. minor Pallas, 

 Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. ii. p. 58." Both quotations are wrong, as Pallas did not 

 give any such names. Pallas only said that Messerschmid described a smaller 

 variety, and that the bird was called by the Russians " Kamenoi Gluchar," which 

 meant Rock-Capercaillie. ("Messerschmidius mireorew statuebat varietatem Uro- 

 galli, cujus foeminam describit :" follows description. Further on, on p. 59 : 

 " Russis Kamenoi Gluchar (UrogaUus rupestris) vocatur"). 



Both names, rupestris and minor, would have priority over parvirostris, 

 if they had been given by PaUas to the species, but rupestris would be antici- 

 pated by Gmelin in 1789. 



The first name of the species is Tetrao urogalloides Middendorff, which, 

 however, was anticipated by Nilsson. 



I have compared specimens from SachaUn and found them to be indis- 

 tinguishable from others from the mainland. " Tetrao urogalloides, var. /9 

 sachalinensis" Bogdanoff, 1884, is therefore a synonym of parvirostris. 



