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rence of this singular species within our limits. 

 Having no personal acquaintance with this bird in a 

 wild state, we must refer our readers to the article 

 above mentioned, and also to that by Mr. Henry- 

 Stevenson, in his ' Birds of Norfolk,' vol. i. pp. 370- 

 404 ; in these excellent papers will be found full 

 accounts of the occurrences of this wanderer in our 

 own Islands and on the continent of Europe, as wtII 

 as details of its habits in its native haunts in the 

 vast plains of Asia. We have a fine pair of this 

 species, stuffed, in our collection, which were ob- 

 tained near Great Yarmouth in the summer of 1863. 



Sancl-Gri^otise. 



We are well acquainted with the two European 

 species of Sand-Grouse, viz, Pterodes arenarius and 

 P. cdchata, both of which are common in many parts 

 of Spain, but have not, as yet, been included in the 

 ranks of British birds. The habits of Pallas's Sand- 

 Grouse appear to resemble closely those of the other 

 species of the family, all of which are lovers of 

 treeless wastes, remote from the habitation of man. 



Since the above article first appeared in print, this 

 country has again been visited, in 1888, by large 

 numbers of Pallas's Sand-Grouse, and I here record 

 the meagre information that has reached me as to its 



