370 GALLO-GRALL.f:. 



Genus SYRRHAPTES. 



Illiger, Prodromus, p. 243 (1811). 



Syrrhaptes paradoxus. 



Tetrao j^a^'^doxa, Pallas, Reise Russ. lleichs, ii. App. p. 712, 



tab. F (1773). 

 Syrrhaptes paradoxus, Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. ii. p. 419 (1884). 



Pallas's Sand-Grouse. 



Hah. Northern Europe and Central Asia. 



1854. Natural skeleton. 0. C, A. 1421 a. 



P urchased of Mr. Genrwd. 



1855. Natural skeleton. 0. C, B. 1421 a. 



1856. Sternum, with shoulder-girdle, wanting left coracoid and 



scapula. S. S. 1014. Purchased. 



Geiuis PTEROCLES. 

 Teinminck, Pigeons et Galliu. iii. p. 712 (1815). 



Pterocles arenarius. 



Tetrao arenaria, Pallas, Nov. Comm. Petrop. xix. p. 418, pi. 8 



(1774). 

 Pterocles arenarius (Pall.), Dresser, B. Eur. vii. p. 61, pi. 466 



(1874). 



The Black-bellied Sand-Grotjse. 



Plah. South-western Europe, Northern Africa, and Western 

 Asia to India. 



1857. Natural skeleton (wanting head and left hind leg) of 



female. 0. C. 1422. Purchased. 



1858. Sternum of female, with shoulder-girdle. S. S. 2152. 



From the Zoological Society/. 



N.B.— The skeleton of the "male,'' 0. C. 1421, is that of a 

 species of Plover, probably an CEdicnetniis ! [Cf. Owen, Osteol. 

 Cat. p. 273.] 



