PaUds's Three-toed Sond-Grouse. 109 



Bonaparte, 1 believe, is the only author who has included it 

 in the European list. In his ' Geographical and Comparative 

 List of the Birds of Europe and North America,^ published in 

 1838, it is placed as No. -281, and " Eastern Europe ^^ given as 

 its locality. Schlegel, in his ' Revue Critique des Oiscaux 

 d'Europe/ 1844, p. 90, confesses himself ignorant of the reasons 

 which led the Prince to insert it, and therefore excludes it. In 

 another list, ' Conspectus Avium Europaearum,^ appended by 

 Bonaparte to his ' Revue Critique de FOrnithologie Europeenne 

 de M. Degland,^ 1850, he himself omits it. But in the 'Cata- 

 logue des Oiseaux d^Europe/ published by M. Parzudaki in 

 1856, it again appears, though with a query. 



To this last list Prince Bonaparte specially solicited the criti- 

 cism of M. de Selys-Longchamps of Liege, and of M. de Pilippi 

 of Turin, — the former of whom, writing in the name of both, 

 enumerates it with others as being included in error, or without 

 sufficient warrant ; and although Bonaparte, in his rejoinder to 

 this critique, insists upon the claims of several of those ques- 

 tioned by M. de Selys, he does not defend the cause of the Syr- 

 rhaptes^. Its claim to be inserted in the European list can now 

 no longer be questioned ; for, in addition to the specimen ex- 

 hibited, another was killed about the same time in Norfolk 

 for the knowledge of which I am indebted to Mr. P. L. Sclater 

 and Mr. A. Newton, but am possessed of no other information 

 than that it was forwarded to Mr. Leadbeater, of London, for 

 stuffing f. That it was out of the same original flock as the 

 Portreuddyn specimen cannot be doubted ; and it will be ex- 

 tremely interesting to compare the dates of their capture. That 



* A^ide ' Revue et Magasin de Zoologie,' 185/, pp. 56, 117 & 134. 



t Of this specimen an account has already been given in ' The Ibis,' 

 vol. i. p. 472. A third specimen, also an adult male, " was shot on the 

 2.'3rd of July last, near Ilobro, in Jutland ; and it is stated tliat another 

 example was observed, but not killed, about the same time, some few miles 

 from the same locality." — Zoologist, 1859, p. 6780. This bird is now, as 

 we are informed by Mr. Alfred Newton, in the Museum of the University 

 of (Copenhagen. 13y a letter from Prof. Schlegel, of Ley den, we learn that a 

 pair of this same bird were observed in the Dunes near that city in August 

 and September last, and that one of them was obtained. — Ed. 



