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5. Inverness-shire (Hargitt Coll.}. Seebohm Coll. 



I . Sweden. S. O. Sahlin, Esq. [P.]. 



~2. Sweden. Salvin-Godmnn Coll. 



1. Sweden (H. W. Wheelwright : Seebohm Coll. 



Hargitt Coll.}, 

 5. Russian Lapland (J. Wolley). Seebohm Coll. 



2. Lapland, 8th March (J. W.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1. Lapland (A. Newton). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



3. Livonia (Russow). Seebohm Coll. 

 5. Pomerania, 15th May ( T. Holland). Seebohm Coll. 



2. Pomerania, 8th May (T. H.). Seebohm Coll. 



Genus CANACHITES, Stejn. 

 Canachites canadensis (Linn.). 



Tetrao canadensis, Ross, Nat. Hist. Rev. 1862, p. 283. 



Canace canadensis, var. canadensis, Baird, Brewer 8f Ridgw. N. Ainer. 



Birds, iii. p. 416 (1874). 

 Dendragapus canadensis, Bend-ire, Life Hist. N. A. Birds, i. p. 51, pi. i. 



figs. 20-23 (1892). 

 Canachites canadensis, Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxii. p. 69 (1893) ; Sharps, 



Hand-l. i. p. 19 (1899). 



The eggs of the Canada Grouse are of a reddish-buff colour, spotted 

 and boldly blotched with deep chocolate -brown. The specimens in 

 the Collection measure from 1-52 to 1*75 in length, and from 1'lri 

 to 1-2 in breadth. 



1. N.America. Purchased of Warwick. 



1. N. America (Smiths. InsL). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1. Fort Rae, Gt. Slave Lake Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 (Henshaw Coll.). 



1. Mackenzie River District. B. R. Ross Esq. [P.]. 



2. Rocky Mountains, British N. Amer. Bound. Cornm. 



Columbia (J. K. Lord). 



Genus DENDRAGAPTJS, Elliot. 

 Dendragapus richardsoni (Dougl.). 



Tetrao obscurus, Lord, Proc. R. A. Inst., Woolwicli, iv. p. 339 (1865). 

 Dendragapus obscurus, var. richardsoni, Baird, B reiver $ Ridr/w. N. 



Amer. Birds, iii. p. 427 (1874) ; Bendire, Life Hist. N. A. Birds, i. 



p. 50 (1892) *. 

 Dendragapus richardsoni, Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxii. p. 76 (1893) ; 



Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 20 (1899). 



The two eggs of Richardson's Capercailzie in the Collection are 

 of a creamy-buff colour, thickly sprinkled all over with small 

 spots and irregular marks of pale rufous brown. They measure 

 respectively : 1-82 by 1-25 ; 1-8:3 by 1-28. 



2. Rocky Mountains, British Co- N. Amer. Bound. Comm. 



lumbia (J. K. Lord). 



* The eggs of the allied species, D. fuliginosiis, are figured by Bendire, t. c. 

 pi. i. figs. 10-19. 



