32 PHASIANIDJ,. 



The eggs vary from 2-5 to 2-8 in length, and from 1-75 to 2 in 

 breadth. 



Tetraogallus caspius(&'m.)- 



Tetraogallus caipius, Danford, Il/is, 1878, p. 29 ; Dresser, Birds Eur. vii. 

 p. 241 (1878) ; Grant, Cat Birds B. M. xxii. p. 108 (1893) ; Sharpe, 

 //rtwtZ-/. i. p. 22 (1899). 



The eggs of the Caspian Snow-Cock measure 2-G in length, and 

 from I'S to 1-87 in breadth. 



4. Taurus, Asia Minor, 23rd April. C. G. Danford, Esq. [P.t 



2. Taurus, 25th April. C. G. Danford, Esq. [P.^ 



Tetraogallus caucasicus {Pall.). 



Oreotetrax caspia. Cab. J. f. O. 1873, p. 63, tab. iii. fig. 36. 



Tetraogallus caucasicus, Bree, Birds Eur. 2nd ed. iv. p. Ill, pi. — 

 (1875); Dresser, Birds Eur. vii. p. 237 (1878); Orant, Cat. Birds 

 B. M. xxii. p. 109 (1893) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 22 ( 1899). 



Megaloperdix caucasica, Lorenz, Beitr. Orii. Kaukas. p. 55 (1887). 



The eggs of the Caucasian Snow-Cock measure from 2-55 to 2-7 

 in length, and from 1'7 to l'7o in breadth. 



2. Caucasus (Lorenz). Seebohm Coll. 



2. Caucasus, 22nd May. Seebohm Coll. 



Genus CACCABIS, Kuup. 



The eggs of the Red-legged Partridges are typically of a regular 

 oval form, but pyriform eggs are of fre(iuent occurrence. They 

 vary in colour from a pale creamy white to a pale creamy buff and 

 they are generally spotted. The shell is smooth and glossj-. 



Caccabis saxatilis ( Wolf t|- Meyer). 



Perdix grsca, Thien. Fortpjlanz. ges. Voi/. p. 27, tab. vii. figs. 5 a, b 



(1845-54). 

 Perdix ^^axatilis, Baedeker, Eier Eur. T'off. tab. 21. fig. 3 (185o-G3). 

 Caccabis saxatilis, Dresser, Birds Eur. vii. p. 93 (1875) ; Grant, Cat. 



Birds B. M. xxii. p. Ill (1893) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 22 (1899). 



The markings on the eggs of the Eock Red-legged Partridge 

 consist of specks and small spots of pale reddish brown or purplish 



