138 SAND GROUSE. 



yellowish, white. The rest of the abdomen black. Under tail coverts 

 whiter. 



My figures, male and female, are from specimens kindly sent to 

 me by Canon Tristram; they are marked Laghouat, November 1856, 

 and therefore in winter plumage. 



The bird has also been figured by Temrainck and Tangier, pi. col. 

 354 and o60; Gould, Birds of Europe, pi. 257; and Naumann, pi. 153. 



Of the beautiful and elegant Three-toed Sand Grouse, Sijrrhaj^tes 

 jjaradoxiis , an excellent figure and description has been given in the 

 "Ibis," vol. ii., p. 105, by Mr. Moore, the keeper of the Free, Public, 

 and Derby Museum, Liverpool. This paper was read at the meeting 

 of the British Association at Aberdeen, in 1859. It records the 

 appearance of this bird for the first time in Great Britain. One 

 specimen was shot in Wales, out of a flock of three, on July 9th., 

 1859. Another was captured in Norfolk" about the same time, and 

 is recorded by Mr. Currie, ("Ibis," vol. i., p. 472.) A third specimen 

 was shot near Hebro, in Jutland, on the 23rd. of July, 1859; and a 

 pair were observed in the Dunes near Ley den, one of which was 

 shot, in September, 1859. 



As there is a full account of the capture of this bird, and its history, 

 with a plate by Wolf, executed in the first rate style of excellence 

 for which the "Ibis" is justly celebrated, I do not feel called upon to 

 include it in this work. If any bird has been seen in Europe for the 

 first time, and not figured, it will still fall to my net, though observed 

 in these isles. I regret not to have the opportunity of including in 

 my work the beautiful Sijrrliaptes paradoxus, so called from the 

 entire absence of a spar or hind toe, and also remarkable for the 

 aberrant character of the beak. 



Since the first edition of this work was published, a remarkable 

 invasion of Great Britain was made by this bird. This was in 1863, 

 and a complete history of this irruption, and the localities of almost 

 all the birds captured, somewhere about one hundred and fifty, is 

 given by Professor Newton in the "Ibis" for 1854. I am able to 

 add one more to the list, which would come in at No. 66*. This bird 

 was killed at Pelden, and was kindly presented to me by Mr. Carter, 

 of Little Wigborough, and with the three others shot in the county 

 is now in my collection. According to Dr. Gustavus Padde, who has 

 given a long account of this bird in his "Reisen in Suden von Ost 

 Siberien," 1861, with plates of the bird and its &g^, it is subject to 

 sudden movements on a very large scale. We appear to have had 

 such a movement in 1863. 



