30 TETRAOKID.E. 



The eggs of the different races of the Ruffed Grouse are ex- 

 tremely variable in colour. The majority are of various shades 

 o cream- colour : some are perfectly unmarked : others show 

 a few small spots of pale rufous : a few are rather profusely 

 spotted with pale reddish brown, and some are marked with a, few 

 pale washed-out purple blotches. Three specimens in the Collec- 

 tion are of a buff-colour, minutely but thickly speckled with dark 

 rufous. 



One specimen is unusually large and measures 1-8 by 1*35. Others 

 of normal size measure from 1'45 to 1'7 in length, and from I'l to 

 1-3 in breadth. 



4. N.W.America. Gould Coll. 



1. N. America. A. D. Bartlett, Esq. [P.]. 



3. N. America (Smiths. Inst.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



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



1. Fort Simpson, 7th June. B. R. Ross, Esq. [P.J. 



2. British Columbia (J. K. Lord}. N. Amer. Bound. Comm. 



3. Musquash River, New Bruus- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



wick, May (Arthur Dresser], 

 (>. Massachusetts (Henshaw Coll.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Genus TETRASTES, Keys. $ Bias. 

 Tetrastes bonasia (Linn.). 



Tetrao bonasia, Thien. Fortpjlanz. ges. Vog. p. 46, tab. ix. figs. 5 a, h 

 (1845-54) ; Bree, Birds Eur. iii. p. 203, pi. (1867). 



Bonasia sylvestris, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 29. fig. 1 (1855-63). 



Bonasa betulina, Dresser, Birds Eur. vii. p. 193 (1871). 



Tetrastes bonasia, Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 147 ; Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. 

 xxii. p. 90 (1893) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 21 (1899). 



The eggs of the Hazel-Grouse vary from cream-colour to reddish 

 buff, and are much speckled and spotted, and sometimes blotched, 

 either with deep reddish brown or with pale rufous. They measure 

 from 1-45 to 1-6 in length, and from 1*08 to 1'2 in breadth. 



Northern Europe. ' Purchased of Warwick. 



Sweden. S. 0. Sahliu, Esq. [P.]. 



Lapland, 16th & 17th June Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 (J. Wolley). 



2. Archangel (Nordvi). Seebohm Coll. 



3. Vosges Mountains (Mouzel: Seebohm Coll. 



Hargitt Coll.). 



8. Yenese'i, lat. 66| N., 25th June Seebohm Coll. 

 (H. Seebohm). 



