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¢ LAGOPUS HEMILEUCURUS.—L. RUPESTRIS. 
Government, on the Expédition Scientifique du Nord under the direction of 
M. Gaimard, under the title of “ Zagopus alpina, var. hyperborea.” In ‘ The 
This’ for 1859 (pp. 169, 170), Messrs. Evans and Sturge, writing of their stay 
in Ice Sound, state that ‘one of us found a nest of this bird—if nest it conld 
be called, being formed only of a few long stems of dry grass bent down in a 
trench-like hollow in the barren fjeld (or high tableland), where the snow 
had been thawed, or perhaps been blown away, which latter might have 
been the case, so bleak and exposed was the situation. There were two eggs, 
which resemble those of others of the genus. One of them measures 1°6 inch 
in length by 1:22 inch in transverse diameter.”’] 
[§ 2976. Zwo (fragmentary)—Wide Bay, Spitsbergen, July, 
1873. From Mr. A. E. Eaton. 
Mr. Eaton’s notes on this species (Zoologist, 1874, pp. 8807-8809), as observed 
by him when with Mr. Leigh Smith in Spitsbergen, unfortunately contain no 
mention of the nest whence these remains were obtained. | 
LAGOPUS RUPESTRIS (Gmelin)!. 
§ 2977. One.—Iceland, 1844. From Mr. Hancock, 1846. 
§ 2978. One.—Oefjord, North Iceland. From Mr. Proctor, 
1844. 
[§ 2979. Fowr.—North Iceland. From Mr. Proctor, 1851.] 
[§ 2980. Zwo.—North Iceland, 1852. From Mr. Proctor, 
1853.1] 
[§ 2981. Fowr.—North Iceland. From Mr. Proctor, 1856.] 
[§ 2982. One.—Merkines, South-west Iceland, June, 1858. 
Sent to Mr. Wolley and myself at Kyrkjuvogr on the 20th June by some 
man who ate the remaining eggs of the nest. ] 
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‘ It will be borne in mind that the specific name rupestris was first applied to 
the bird from Hudson’s Bay ; that of Iceland is the Tetrao islandorum of F aber, 
and that of Greenland the 7. reinhardti of Brehm. To me all seem to belong to 
the same species. ; 
