149'” My. H. Seebohm on the Ornithology of Siberia. 
are mostly tipped with ochraceous, rarely with white. The 
males differ from the female in having the ochraceous bars 
narrower, more numerous, and interrupted, making the general 
effect of the plumage of the upper parts darker and richer. 
' The throat. and breast are rather paler than the back. The 
belly and under tail-coverts of one are white, and in the 
other the feathers on the flanks are half white and half mot- 
tled' black and ochraceous, on the under tail-coverts all mot- 
tled, and on the belly half white and half mottled ash-grey 
and ochraceous. 
So far as I know, this is the first record of this species on 
the mainland of the Palearctic region. In size my skins of 
this bird are smaller than those of the Willow-Grouse, 
measuring in length of wing 73 to 7} inches against 7? to 8 
inches (measured with a tape across the upper surface of the 
wing). , 
BorauRus sTELLARIS (Linn.). 
I brought home the skin of a Bittern which I found hang- 
ing up in a peasant’s house in a little village on the banks of 
the Yen-e-say’, in lat. 64°. Thepeasant told me that he had 
shot it in the neighbourhood some time during the previous 
summer. 
Grus communis, Bechst. 
I first observed the Crane about lat. 60° on my return 
journey up the Yen-e-say’ on the 12th of August, when small , 
parties were migrating southwards. I frequently saw these 
birds at Yen-e-saisk’ during the few days I remained at that 
town ; and afterwards they were not uncommon on the Ob 
and the Too’-ra. , 
GRUS LEUCOGERANUS, Pall. 
A small flock of four or five of these handsome birds flew 
leisurely over our steamer as we were threading the labyrinths 
of the Too’-ra. _ During flight they appeared to be pure white 
all over, except the outside half of each wing, which looked 
jet-plack. 
TRINGA TEMMINCKI, Leisl. 
As soon as the snow had melted on the banks of the river, 
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