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" PoDOCES PLESKii, Zarudny. 



" A clutch of two eggs collected by Mr. Zarudny at Ralat- 

 Kazy, Persia, on the 10th of May, 1906. These, as will be 

 seen, are very like the eggs of Lanius excubitor. 



" Grus leucogeranus. Pall. 



" One egg of a clutch of two collected in N.E. Siberia, 

 received from Dr. Bianchi. 



"Tringa ruficollis, Pall. 



" A clutch of four eggs taken by Dr. Bunge in the Delta 

 of the Lena on the 6th of July, received from Dr. Bianchi. 

 They resemble eggs of Tringa minuta, but are more boldly 

 marked. 



" I may remark that the Imperial Zoological Museum of 

 St. Petersburg is the only Museum which possesses authentic 

 eggs of the three last-named species, excepting those of 

 Grus leucogeranus, laid by birds in captivity." 



Dr. E. Hartert sent for exhibition a new subspecies of 

 Sand-Grouse, which was described as follows : — 



Pterocles bicinctus multicolor, subsp. n. 



Pterocles bicinctus, Grant (nee Temm.), Cat. Birds B. M. 

 xxii. p. 30 (1893) [part.]. 



Adult male. Similar to the male of P. b. bicinctus, Temm., 

 from South-west Africa (Orange River System to Benguella) , 

 but more brightly coloured. The upperside irregularly 

 barred and marked with black and rufous-buff, with a white 

 terminal blotch on each feather and with the black bars on 

 the underside broader and straighter. 



Adult female. Similar to the female of P. b. bicinctus, but 

 more brightly coloured, with irregular black and rufous- 

 buff bars on the upperside and with somewhat broader black 

 bars on the breast and belly. 



Hab. South-east Africa ; Limpopo River System. 



Type in the Tring Museum : (J . Rustenburg, Transvaal, 

 ix. 93. W. Ayres coll. 



Obs. The male of P. b. bicinctus had the upperside olive- 



