Order RASORES. 



Superfamily TETRAONOIDEiE. 



Family TETRAOMD^. 

 87. Urogallus parvirostris kamtschaticus (Kittl.). 



1858. — Tettao kamtschaticus Kittlitz, Deukw. Eeis., II, p. 354, fig. oup. 35'3, 

 1870.— Tetrao parvirostris Gray, Handl. B., II, p. 276 (nee Bp.). 

 1883. — Tetrao camtschaiicus Taczanowski, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1883, i>. 333.* 

 1884. — Tetrao urogalloides Bogdanow, Consp. Av. Imp. Ross., I, p. 24 (part). 



The Kaintscliiitkau Capercalzie has been shown by Mr. Taczanowski 

 to be distinct from the bird. called by Middendorf T. urogalloidesj, aud 1 

 have only little to remark in addition to his very full and accurate de- 

 scriptions (Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1883, pp. 333-338). It is evideut, 

 however, that he lays too much stress on the difference in the gradua- 

 tion of the tail in the two forms, since my specimen is exactly inter- 

 mediate, and hence I conclude that the two forms are not more than 

 subspecifically distinct.f 



* Taczanowski quotes erroneously " Kittliz, Eeis. Euss. Amer., I, p. 314;" the cor- 

 rect citation is as given above. 



tit is strange that many authors still persist in using this name after it has been 

 shown that Prof. Sven Nilsson, long before Middendorli', applied nrogalloides to the 

 hybrid between the Black Cock and the Cai)ercalzie so common in Scandinavia. 

 Whether ajiplied to a hybrid or not, the name is preoccupiad, and Bonaparte's substi- 

 tute, parvirostris, should be adopted without delay. Its synonymy is as follows : 



Urogallus parvirostris (Bp.). 



1826. — Tetrao urogallus Pall., Zoogr. Ross. As., II, p. 56 (part). 



1853.— Tetrao uror/alloides MiDn , Sibir. Keise, II, 2 (p. 195, tab. xviii) {nee NiLSS.).— Schrenck, 

 Iteiso Ainuil., I, p. 396 (18G0).— Radde, Reise Siiil. Ost-Sibir. II (p. 299) (1863).- Elliot, 

 Mouogr. Toti-., pi. vi (1865).— Dyb. & I'Aliv., J. f. Orn., 1868, p. 336.— Taczan., J. f. Oru., 

 1873, p. US.— Id., Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1876, p. 242.— /d., Orn. Fauna Vost. Sibir., p. 47 

 (1877).— BoGDAN., Consp. Av. Imp. Ross., I, p. 24(1884). 



1856. — Tetrao parwro«<rts BoNAi'.,Compt. Rend., XLII, p. 880. 



Pallas in a note (oj). ci<.,p.58) mentions this species as a smaller variety, which the 

 Eussians call "Eock Capercalzie." Upon this has been founded the following alto- 

 gether unwarranted quotations: " Tetrao urogallus var. minor Pallas Zoogr. E. A., II, 

 pp. 58,59" (Elliot, Monogr. Tetraon., text to pi. vi), aud " Tetrao urogallus var. rupes- 

 tris Pallas, Zoograi^hia Eosso-Asiatica, II, p. 58, Nota 2 " (Bogdanow, Consul. Av. Imp. 

 Eoss.,I, p. 24). 



t Of the genus Urogallus we then have two well-defined specits. It does not seem 

 that Urogallus urogallus has been studied closely enough as to its local varie- 

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