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of shagreen skin behind, which is continuous with that 
on the soles of the feet. The beak bluish horn colour. 
Feet yellow. 
The female differs from the male, in having the 
upper parts of a light fawn-colour, thickly pencilled 
with black in transverse strice. Lighter and fewer 
bands on the wing coverts, which terminate with 
ochreous yellow, hut much paler than in the male; 
throat and under wing coverts yellowish white, the 
breast in colour and markings like that of a hen Pheasant, 
and the black line, which is broader than in the male, 
is succeeded by a band of about half an inch wide 
of yellowish white. The rest of the abdomen black. 
Under tail coverts whiter. 
My figures, male and female, are from sj)ecimens 
kindly sent to me by Mr. Tristram; they are marked 
Laghouat, November 1856, and therefore in winter 
plumage. 
The bird has also been figured by Temminck and 
Laugier pi. col. 354 and 360; Gould, Birds of Europe, 
pi. 25T ; and Naumann pi. 153. 
Of the beautiful and elegant Three-toed Sand 
Grouse, Syrrhajitcs paradoxus , 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 England, or even in Europe. One 
specimen was shot in M^ales, 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, 
