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Lagopus rupestris {Om.). 



Lagopus islandicus, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 46. fig. 2 (1855-63). 

 Lagopus rupestris, Dresner, Birds Eur. vii. p. 175 (1874) ; MacFarlane, 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. p. 431 (1891) ; Bmdire, Life Hist. N. A. 



Birds, i. p. 75, pi. ii. figs. 11-15 (1892) ; Orant, Cat. Birds B. M. 



xxii. p. 48 (1893) ; Sharpe, Jland-l. i. p. 18 (1899). 

 Lagopus mutus, var. rupestris, Baird, Bretoer &■ Ridgw. N. Amer. Birds, 



iii. p. 462 (1874). 

 Tetrao mutus, Seebohm, Birds Japan. Emp. p. 372 (1890). 



The eggs of the Rock-Ptarmigan have the markings intensely 

 dark. Thej' measure from 1-6 to 1-8 in length, and from 1-15 to 

 1'25 in breadth. 



1. Bering Island, 25th June. G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 7. Japan {H. Fryer). Seebohm Coll, 



4. Anderson River, Arctic America, Salvin-Godman Coll. < 



1st July (M. MacFarlane.: 

 Smiths. Inst.). 



5. Labrador'. Sir H. Peek [P.]. 



3. Greenland. Governor HolboU [C.l. 



3. Greenland. Gould CoU. 



3. Greenland (Erichsim). Seebohm Coll. 



5. Greenland (H. C. Miiller). Seebohm Coll. 



11. Christianshaab, Disco Bay, Seebohm Coll. 

 Greenland, 14th June. 



7. Godhaab, Greenland. Seebohm Coll. 



5. Iceland ( W. Proctor). Seebohm Coll. 



6. Iceland ( W. P.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



8. Iceland (r.Xw^fr). Seebohm Coll. 



Genus LYRURUS, Swaitis. 

 Lyrurxis tetrix (Linn.). 



Tetrao tetrix, Thien. Fprtpfianz. ges. Vog., p. 42, tab. ix. figs. 2a,b (1845- 

 64); Hewitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 278, pi. Ixix. fig. i (18-56); 

 Dresser, Birds Eur. vii. p. 206 (1873); Seebohm ^ Harvie-Brown, 

 Ibis, 1876, p. 221 ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, ii. p. 435, pi. 20 (1884) ; id. 

 Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 273, pi. 69. fig. 7 (1896). 



Lyruriis tetrix, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Voq. tab. 29. fig. 3 (1855-63) ; Grant, 

 Cat. Birds B. M. xxii. p. 63 (1893) : Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 19 (1899). 



The eggs of the Black Grouse are of various shades of cream-colour, 

 pale yellow and reddish buff, marked with specks, spots and blotches 

 of reddish brown. Some are marked only with small spots ; others 

 with both spots and blotches, many of the latter being of con- 

 siderable size. Occasionally a specimen has a decidedly greenish 

 tinge. They measure from 1-9 to 2-1 in length, and from 1-35 to 

 1-45 in breadth. 



5. Ridesdale, Scotland, 10th July. Seebohm Coll. 



5. Glen Shiel, Ross-shire, 23rd May Seebohm Coll. 



(E. Hargitt). 



