18780 MR - °- G " ■»»» ON THE PTEROCLID*. 



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3. A Study of the PterocKd* or Family of the Sand-Grouse. 

 By D. G. Elliot, F.R.S.E. &c. 



[Received January 18, 1878.] 



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 sented in that Museum maTv K u Pterochdie is repre- 

 different plumao-es and'r^ 7 • ^ ^ Smes of both se ^s in 



writers. iHhe treatoenTnf S P e ?. mens T are th * types of the older 



method as that p ted for n v^RevT JJ^I f ? ll0Wed the sa ™ 

 first the Literature of t£ V 7 ., Re y' ew °{ the Ibidinae"*, and give 



by some remarks upon the differ^? *' C,aSsificatio »' followed 



these are succeededTy a rev fw of tlTTir^/V^ «™P ' 

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Literature of the Family. 



Linnseus is the first author to claim our attention. 



1766. Linnaeus, ' Systema Nature.' 

 pl-^ «»™ ^-> this author 



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1771. Linnaeus, 'Mantissa.' 



In this work the P. senegalus is described »» r./ 

 Species 2. uescnoed as 2V^« senegalus. 



1/74. Pallas, 'Nov. Coram. Petropol.' 

 ft erodes arenarius first made known no t . 

 Species 4. own as "'hio arenarius. 



1786. Scopoli, 'Deliciae Faun* et Flore Insubric* ' 

 Pteroelesfasnatus first described as TringaJ^Z. Species 5. 

 1/88. Gmelin, ' Systema Nature.' 



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Species 6. 

 1 P- Z- 8. 1877, p. 477. 



