Pallas' s Sand- Grouse in 1863. 195 



31, Sylt, 8°20'E. A flock of birds often seen there in 

 summer, at tirst taken for Dotterel [Eudromias morinellus), but 

 believed by Herr von Preen to have been Syrrluqjtes. J. f. 0. 

 p. 394. 



32, 33. Ringkjobing and Nymindegal, 8° 1 0' E. On the sand- 

 hills [KUtter) between these places a large number of Palla&^s 

 Sand-Grouse have been observed during the past summer, as I am 

 informed by my excellent friend Professor Reinhardt, who has 

 most kindly favoured me with a copy in manuscript of the con- 

 cluding portion of a paper on the subject read by him in the 

 " Naturhistoriske Forening '' of Copenhagen, and which will be 

 published in their ' Videnskabelige Meddelelser*.^ This com- 

 munication enters so fully into details, that I am compelled here 

 to give but a very concise abstract of it, though it contains 

 matter far more interesting than I have met with elsewhere. 

 Early in June last, Herr Bulow, an officer in the Custom-Housc 

 at Ringkjobing, sent the Professor several living birds which had 

 been snared by a gunner on their nests in the above-mentioned 

 district, together with four of their eggs. One of the latter was 

 found by Herr Bulow in the box which conveyed the birds, 

 having been laid on the journey. It was colourless, indicating 

 that it had been prematurely produced. The other three eggs 

 were fully coloured. It appears that this gunner found two 

 nests of Syrrhaptes in his own neighbourhood, and a third at a 

 place called Bierregaard. On two of the nests both the birds (in 

 each case the hens first and then the cocks) wei'e caught, on the 

 6th June. These nests wei'e near one another ; and one, con- 

 taining three eggs, consisted of a slight depression in the sand, 

 lined with a little dry marram. The other had only two eggs, 

 was placed among some ling, and furnished in a like manner. 

 The third nest was similar to the first, and was halfway up a 



* I had been in hopes to have given my readers a recapitulation of the 

 whole of this valuable paper ; but the invasion of Denmark by the Prussian 

 and Austrian armies having interrupted the direct postal communication 

 between that country and our own, my design has been frustrated. As it 

 is, I consider myself most fortunate in having received so much information 

 in time to use it on the present occasion. 



