LAGOPrS. LTRURrs. 25 



Lagopus rupestris (Gm.). 



hugOYius islamlicus, Baedeker, Eier Ein-. 77///. tab. 46. fipr. 2 (ISoij-Go). 

 Lagopus rupestris, Z>rM.<;c?-, i?i>f/s ^?^;-. vii. p. 175 (1874); MoeFeirlane, 



Froc. U.S. ^''at. Mus. xiv. p. 4.31 (1891) ; Bendire, Life Ilisf. N. A. 



Birds, i. p. 7o, pi. ii. figs. 11-15 (1892); Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. 



xxii. p. 48 (1893) ; iiharpe. Hand-l. i. p. 18 (1899). 

 Lagopus mutus, rar. rupestris, Baird, Brewer ^- JRidffW. N. Amer. Birds, 



iii. p. 462 (1874). 

 Tetrao mutus, Seebohm, Birds Japan. Emp. p. 372 (1890). 



The eges of the Piock-Ptarmigan have the markings intensely 

 dark. They measure from 1-0 to 1-8 in length, and from 1-15 to 

 1-25 in breadth. 



] . Bering Island, 25th June. G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 7. Japan {H. Fryer). Seebohm Coll. 



4. Anderson Kiver, Arctic America, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1st July (i?. MacFarlane : 

 Smit7is. Inst.). 



5. Labrador. Sir IL Peek [P.]. 



3. Greenland. Governor Ilolbiill [C.]. 



3. Gr^^enland. Gould Coll. 



3. Greenland {Erichson). Seebohm Coll. 



5. Greenland (H. C. Miiller). Seebohm Coll. 



11. Christianshaab, Disco Bay, Seebohm Coll. 

 Greenland, 14th June. 



7. Godhaab, Greenland. Seebohm Coll. 

 5. Iceland ( W. Froctoi-). Seebohm Coll. 



(i. Iceland ( W. P.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



8. Iceland (Z". £»•(«/)?/•). Seebohm Coll. 



Genus LYRURUS, S^vahis. 

 Lyrurus tetrix (Linn.). 



Tetrao tetrix, Thien. Fortpfanz. f/es. Vog. p. 42, tab. ix. figs. 2ff, h (1845- 

 54); Heicitsem, Fggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 278, pi. Ixix. fig. i (1856); 

 Dresser, Birds Fur. vii. p. 205 (1873); Seebo/im S,' F^arrie-Broicn, 

 Jfns, 1876, p. 221 ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, ii. p. 435, pi. 20 (1884) ; id. 

 Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 273, pi. 59. fig. 7 (1896). 



Lvruriis ie\v\x, Baedeker, Eier Eur. J'of/. tab. 29. fig. 3 (1855-G3) ; Grant, 

 Cat. Birds B. M. xxii. p. 53 (1893) : Shar2)e, Hand-l. i. p. 19 (1899). 



The eggs of the Black Grouse are of various shades of cream-colour, 

 pale ycUow and reddish huff, marked with specks, spots and blotches 

 of reddish brown. Some are marked only with small spots ; others 

 with both spots and blotches, many of the latter being of con- 

 siderable size. Occasionally a specimen has a decidedly greenish 

 tinge. They measure from 1-9 to 2-\ in length, and from 1-35 to 

 1'4") in breadth. 



5. Bidesdale, Scotland, 10th July. Seebohm Coll. 



5. (lien Shiel, Boss-shire, 23rd !Slav Seebohm Coll. 



{E. Hargitt). 



