310 COLUMBID^E. 



Streptopelia orientalis. EASTERN TURTLE-DOVE. 



Columba orientalis Latham, Ind. On. ii. 1790, p. 606 : 



China. 



Tortur orientalis (Lath.}; Salvador}, Cat. Birds B. M. xxi. 1893, 



p. 403 ; Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 487. 

 Orientalis = eastern. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Rare Visitor. An 

 immature bird was obtained near Scarborough, Yorkshire, 

 Oct. 1889. 



General Distribution. The Eastern Turtle-Dove ranges 

 from north-east India and the Burmese countries across 

 China to Amurland, Manchuria, Korea, Japan, and Formosa, 

 where it appears to be non-migratory. It has occurred in 

 Denmark and Sweden. A closely allied form, S. o. ferrago, 

 inhabits south-west Siberia, Turkestan, Kashmir, and Nepal, 

 and winters in India. 



Order PTEROCLETIFORMES. 



Family PT^ROCLETID^. 



Genus SYRRHAPTES llliger, Prodr. Syst. Nat. 1811, 

 p. 2-43. 



Type : S. paradoxus (Pallas). 



Syrrhaptes, derived by its author, I.e., from wppairTeir = to sew or stitch 

 together, because the last phalanges only of the toes are free. 



Syrrhaptes paradoxus. PALLAS' SAND-GROUSE. 



Tetrao paradoxa Pallas, Reise Russ. Reichs, ii. 1773, 

 p. 712 : Deserts of Tartary. 



Syrrhaptes paradoxus (Pall.); B. O. U. List, Isted. 1883, p. 140; 

 Ogilvie- Grant, Oat. Birds B. M. xxii. 1893, p. 2 ; Saunders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 488. 



Paradoxus = ira.pddvZos, strange, contrary to expectation ; from the curious 

 structure of the bird's feet. 



