LAGOFUS. LTRURUS. 



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Lagopus rupestris (6'i.). 



Lagopus islandicus, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 46. fig 1 . 2 (1855-63). 

 Lagopus rupestris, Dresser, Birds Eur. vii. p. 175 (1874) ; MncFarlane, 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. p. 431 (1891) ; Bendire, Life Hist. N. A. 



Birds, i. p. 75, pi. ii. figs. 11-15 (1892) ; Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. 



xxii. p. 48 (1893); Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 18 (1899). 

 Lagopus mut us, var. rupestris, Baird, Brewer 8f Ridgw. N. Amer. Birds, 



Hi. p. 462 (1874). 

 Tetrao mutus, Seebohm, Birds Japan. Emp. p. 372 (1890). 



The eggs of the Bock-Ptarmigan have the markings intensely 

 dark. They measure from 1'6 to 1-8 in length, and from 1-15 to 

 1/25 in breadth. 



L Bering Island, 25th June. 



7. Japan (H. Pryer). 



4. Anderson "River, Arctic Am erica, 



1st July (R. MacFarlane : 

 Smiths. Inst.). 



5. Labrador. 

 3. Greenland. 

 3. Greenland. 



3. Greenland (Erichson). 



5. Greenland (H. C. Mutter). 



11. Christianshaab, Disco Bay, 

 Greenland, 14th June. 



7. Godhaab, Greenland. 

 5. Iceland ( W. Proctor}. 

 (). Iceland ( W. P.). 



8. Ice! and ( T. Krilper) . 



G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton, Esq. 



[P.]. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Sir H. Peek [P.]. 

 Governor Holboll [C.]. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Genus LYRURUS, Swains. 

 Lyrurus tetrix (Linn.). 



Tetrao tetrix, Thien. Fortpflanz. yes. Vog. p. 42, tab. ix. figs. 2, b (1845- 

 54); Hewitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 278, pi. Ixix. fig. i (1856); 

 Dresser, Birds Eur. vii. p. 205 (1873) ; Seebohm $ Harvie-Broivn, 

 Ibis, 1876, p. 221 ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, ii. p. 435, pi. 20 (1884) ; id. 

 Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 273, pi. 59. fig. 7 (1896). 



Lyrurus tetrix, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 29. fig. 3 (1855-63) ; Grant, 

 Cat. Birds B. M. xxii. p. 53 (1893) : Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 19 (1899). 



The eggs of the Black Grouse are of various shades of cream-colour, 

 pale yellow and reddish buff, marked with specks, spots and blotches 

 of reddish brown. Some are marked only with small spots ; others 

 with both spots and blotches, many of the latter being of con- 

 siderable size. Occasionally a specimen has a decidedly greenish 

 tinge. They measure from 1-9 to 2-1 in length, and from 1-35 to 

 1-45 in breadth. 



5. Kidesdale, Scotland, 10th July. Seebohm Coll. 



o. Glen Shiel, Koss-shire, 23rd May Seebohm Coll. 



(E. Hargitt}. 



