65 [Vol. xxix. 



6 ? in various stages, assuming male plumage. 1 Perm ; 



2 Orenburg; 1 Archangel; 1 Nijni Novgorod; 1 Veliki 

 Ustug, Vologda. Lorenz coll. (Skins). 



3 ? assuming male plumage. Leadenhall Market, 1888, 

 1894, 1901. (Skins). 



$ assuming male plumage. Bond collection (procured 

 by the late F. Bond from Mr. H. E. Dresser, 1 877) . (Skin) . 



Lyrurus tetrix viridantjs, Lorenz. 



$ in complete male plumage, only showing some faint 

 grey vermiculatious on the wings and upper tail-coverts. 

 West Siberia, xi. Lorenz coll. (Mounted). 



8 ? in various stages, assuming male plumage. 3 Ufa ; 



3 Tobolsk ; 2 West Siberia. Lorenz coll. (Skins). 



Phasianus colchicus X . 



(^ adult assuming female plumage on the back, wings, and 

 tail. Cambridge Market, 1889. (Mounted). 



(^ VERY OLD, assuming female plumage. Leadenhall 

 Market, 28. xi. 93. Head normal, breast almost completely 

 like that of the female ; tail and back with blended male 

 and female plumage ; rump with large metallic green 

 patches; spurs very long. (Skin). 



4 2 in various stages, assuming male plumage. Shot at 

 Tring Park. (1) With green on the feathers of the hind- 

 neck and orange on the breast. (2) With a complete green 

 head like that of the male, the back as in the normal male, 

 the breast red-brown, the tail like that of the male but partly 

 coloured as in the female. (3) In complete male plumage 

 with the exception of the rump, which shows a mixture of 

 male and female plumage. (Mounted). 



4 ? in various stages of male plumage. Shot at Tring Park. 

 (1) Head and throat like that of the male, crown with mixed 

 male and female plumage, breast and hind-neck yellow, back 

 and wings normal, tail partly like that of the male. (2) In 

 complete male plumage with the exception of a few female 

 feathers on the back, but lacking the black margins on the 

 feathers of the breast. (3) In complete male plumage, but 



