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same collection a male from St. Gothard, wliicli was bought 

 in the market of Lausanne in Sc])tcmbcr 1834. It deserves 

 at the same time to be mentioned that Klein in his Ova 

 Avium, published at Leipsic in 17G6, has given a coloured 

 representation of the egg of Urogallus hi/bridus, tab. 15, 

 fig. 2, intermediate in size, and placed between the eggs 

 of the Capercaillie and Black Grouse, with a short reference 

 to, and description of, each, at page 33, as follows : — Fig. 1. 

 Auerhahn. Urogallus major. Ovum colon's rubigiuosi, 

 hinc inde maculis parvis ohscuriorihus notalum. Fig. 3. 



