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to be seen. Thinking I had not gone far enough along, I withdrew 
as quietly as possible, and had just dropped upon my hands and 
knees when the well-known notes sounded close to me. Up I 
started, and let fly at the bird, which, judging by the distance it 
had then gone, must have risen among the long grass, about ten 
yards off. However, he had risen for the last time, poor fellow ! 
for he fell dead among the turnips, shot under the wing. He is, 
as I supposed, a specimen of Pallas’ Sand Grouse (Siyrrhaptes 
paradoxus). The latter name is well bestowed, for a more puzzling 
bird I never saw. 
