310 COLUMBID^. 



Streptopelia orientalis. Eastern Turtle-Dove. 



Columba orientalis Latham, Ind. Orn. ii. 1790, p. 606 : 



China. 



Tortm- orientalis {Lath.) ; Salvadori, Cat. Birds B. M. xxi. 1893, 

 p. 403 ; Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 487. 

 Orientalis = eastern. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Rare Visitor. An 

 immature bird was obtained near Scarboroughj Yorkshire, 

 Oct. 1889. 



General Distribution. — The Eastern Turtle-Dove ranges 

 from north-east India and the Burmese countries across 

 China to Amurland, Manchuria, Korea, Japan, and Formosa, 

 where it appears to be non-migratory. It has occurred in 

 Denmark and Sweden. A closely allied form, S. o. f err ago, 

 inhabits south-west Siberia, Turkestan, Kashmir, and Nepal, 

 and winters in India. 



Order PTEEOCLETIFORMES. 



Family PTEROCLETID^. 



Genus SYRRHAPTES llliger, Prodr. Syst. Nat. 1811, 



p. 243. 



Type : S. paradoxus (Pallas). 



Syrrhaptes, derived by its author, l.i., from (TvppairTeiv = to sew or stitch 

 together, because the last phalanges only of the toes are free. 



Syrrhaptes paradoxus. Pallas' Sand-Grouse. 



Tetrao paradoxa Fallas, Reise Russ. Reichs, ii. 1773, 



p. 712 : Deserts of Tartary. 

 SyiThaptes paradoxus (Pall.)- B.O. TI.List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 140; 



Ogilvie-Graiit, Oat. Birds B.M. xxii. 1893, p. 2 ; Saunders, 



Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 488. 



Paradoxus = TrnpiSoias, strange, contrary to expectation ; from the curious 

 Btmcture of the bird's feet. 



