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grey, evenly distributed over the shell. Some examples have small 

 blotches in addition to spots. They measure from 1'7 to 1'85 iu 

 length, and from 1-2 to 1*3 in breadth. 



2. Swiss Alps, June. 



2. Swiss Alps. 



4. Switzerland. 



8. Switzerland. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohni Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Caccabis chukar {J. E. Grm/). 



Perdix cfraeca, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Voy. tab. G7. fig. 2 (1855-63) ; Bree, 



Birds Eur. iii. p. 242, pi. — (1867). 

 Caccabis saxatilis, Simpson, Ibis, 1860, p. 388 ; Tristram, Ibis, 1868, 



p. 213. 

 Caccabis chukar, Dresser, Birds Eur. vii. p. 97 (1875); Grant, Cat. 



Birds B. M. xxii. p. 113 (1893) ; Oates, Game Birds Lid. i. p. 179 



(1898) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 22 (1899). 

 Caccabis chukor, Hmne 8)- Marsh. Game Birds Ind. ii. p. 3.3 (1879) ; 



Oates ed. Hume, N'ests Si- Egys Ind. B. iii. p. 431 (189U). 



Eggs of the Chukor Partridge taken in Greece are frequently 

 unmarked. Those from the Grecian Archipelago and Cyprus are 

 tor the most part slightly spotted, and there are only two specimens 

 in the Collection from these parts which may be said to be boldly 

 marked. 



More to the eastward the eggs of this species are found to be in 

 all cases spotted and frequently blotched with purplish, reddish or 

 yellowish brown, and with grey and pink. Thej' measure from 

 1'55 to 1-9 in length, and from 1"15 to 1'3 in breadth. 



1. Laid in confinement (Zool. Gar- 

 dens, London ). 

 Athens, 11th April {T. Krilper). 

 Athens, 26th April {Seebohm ^• 



Krilper). 

 Delphi, Greece, 3rd May {S. 4" K.). 

 Delphi, 3rd May. 

 Tzipiana, Greece, 6ch May ( W. H. 



Simp.'ion). 

 The Cyclades, 15th Aug. (7'. 



Krilper). 

 Cyprus. 

 Mount Sinai. 

 Marsaba, Palestine, SOtli March 



{II. B. Tri.'itram). 

 Moab, March. 

 Jericho, Murch. 



Jericho, Marcli (//. B. Tristratn). 

 Kirina, Persia, 1st Oct. 

 , Kurdistan, 24th May. 

 . Tibet, 29th July,' 16,000 feet 



{F. Wilson). 

 . India. 

 . Agrore Valley, May. 



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Salvin-Godman CoU. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohin Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll 



Seebohm Coll. 



Lord Lilford [P.]. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Salviu-Godman Coll. 



Canon Tristram [C.]. 

 Canon Tristr.xm [C.j. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Sir Kenneth Loftus [P.]. 

 Sir Kenneth Loftus [P.J. 

 Hume Coll. 



Gould Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



