PALLAS’S SAND-GROUSE. 
SYRRHAPTES PARADOXUS (Pail.). 
Tetrao paradoxa, Paill., Reise Russ. Reichs, ii. App. p. 712 
(1773). 
Syrrhaptes paradoxus, Yarr, ed. 4, iii. p. 831; Dresser, vii. 
p. 75. 
Syrrhapte paradoxal, French; Steppen-Huhn, German. 
I must preface my remarks upon this beautiful 
wanderer from Asia by confessing that I have no per- 
sonal acquaintance whatever with it in a wild state, and 
will therefore endeavour to the best of my ability to 
summarize in a few lines the mass of records relating 
to its appearances in the United Kingdom, and beg 
my readers to understand that, where not otherwise 
specified, I quote from my friend Professor Newton’s 
article in the ‘Ibis’ of 1864, from which it appears 
that the earliest recorded occurrence of this species in 
England took place early in July 1859, at Walpole, 
St. Peter’s, Norfolk ; two more were seen, and one of 
them shot near Tremadoec, Carnarvonshire, on the 9th 
of the same month; and another was killed at New 
Romney, Kent, in November of the same year. In 
1863 the earliest record of appearance is that of a flock 
of fourteen, out of which three were secured, near 
