GALLIFORMES, PTEROCLETES. 
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Order GALLIFORMES. 
Nouveaux principes de classification des races Gallines ; P. Dechambre, 
Mem. Soc. zool. Franco, viii, pp. 353-362. 
A handbook to the Game-Birds ; W. R. O. Grant (Allen’s Naturalists’ 
Library), London, vol. ii, 1896, 8vo, xvi & 316 pp., pis. xxii-xxxix. 
Tetrao tetrix, in Siebenburgen ; E. Czynk, Aquila, iii, pp. 232-236. T . 
urog alius , var. uralensis , Menzbier (nec Nazarov), notes on ; M. 
Menzbier, Ibis, 1896, p. 154. T. uralensis , figured ; H. E. Dresser, 
Suppl. Birds Europe, pt. viii, pi. 705. 
Tetraogallus Caucasians , notes on the species ; M. Noska & Tsciiusi zu 
Sciimtdhoefen, Ornith. Jahrb. vii, pp. 10-35. 
Lagopus evermanni , n. sp., Attu I., Aleutian Is.; D. G. Elliot, Auk, xiii, 
pp. 25 & 26, pi. iii. L. rupestris townsendi , n. subsp., Kyska and 
Adak Is., Aleutian Chain ; id. t. c. pp. 26-29. 
Bonasa griseiventris y figured; H. E. Dresser, Suppl. Birds Europe, pt. vii, 
pi. 704. 
B. umbellus , its mode of “drumming”; J. R. Mead, Tr. Kansas Ac. 
xiv, pp. 113 & 114. 
Caccabis rufa, in Forfarshire ; T. F. Dewar, Ann. Scott. Nat. Hist. 1896, 
pp. 59 & 60. 
Francolinus crawshayi, u. sp., Cheni-Cheni Mountain, W. of Lake Nyasa; 
W. R. Ogilvie Grant, Ibis, 1896, pp. 482 & 483, pi. xii. F. bicnl- 
caratus , figured ; H. E. Dresser, Suppl. Birds Europe, pt. ix, 
pi. 703. 
Arboricola henrici , n. sp., Annam ; E. Oustalet, Bull. Mus. Paris, 1896, 
p. 317. 
Coturnix dactylisonans X Perdix cinerca ; J. von Madarasz, Aquila, iii, 
pp. 236 & 237. G. baldami , L. Brebm, figured ; id. t. c. taf. ii. 
Genmnus edvmrdsi , n. sp., Annam ; E. Oustalet, Bull. Mus. Paris, 1896, 
pp. 316 & 317. 
Phasianus mongolicus turcestanicus , n. subsp., Turkestan, Th. Lorenz, 
Ornith. Monber. iv, pp. 189-191. P. ignitus and its nearest allies ; 
J. Buttikofer, Notes Leyden Mus. xvii, pp. 169-196. P. persicus 
and P. principalis , figured ; H. E. Dresser, Suppl. Birds Europe, 
pt. viii, pis. 701 & 702. P. colchicus and P. torquatus , figured ; Lil- 
ford, Col. Fig. Br. Birds, pt. xxxiii. 
Pavo nigripennis, is a distinct species ; P. L. Sclater, Bull. B. O. C. vi, 
p. xii. 
Numida zecki , n. sp., Togo-land ; A. Reichenow, Ornith. Monber. iv, 
p. 76. 
Dendrortyx hypsopodius f n. sp., Costa Rica ; O. Salvin, Bull. B. O. C. vi, 
P* v * 
Callipepla calif ornica vallicola , habits : F. X. Holzner, Auk, xiii, p. 81. 
Eupsychortyx pallidus , n. sp., Margarita I. ; C. W. Richmond, P. U. S. 
Mus. xviii, p. 657. 
Turnix ivhiteheadi , u. sp., Manila ; W. R. O. Grant, Handbook to the 
Game Birds, vol. ii, p. 276. T. sylvatica , in Sicily ; J. I. S. Whitaker, 
Ibis, 1896, pp. 290 & 291. 
Ortalis vetula maccalli , Baird, note on ; C. Dury, J. Cincinnati Soc. xviii, 
pp. 201 & 202. 
Order PTEROCLETES. 
Pterocles alcliata , breeding in captivity ; E. G. B. Meade- Waldo, 
Zoologist, 1896, pp. 298 & 299. P. sencgallm , figured ; H. E. 
Dresser, Suppl. Birds Europe, pt. vii, pi. 699. P. coronatus , 
figured ; id. t. c. pi. 700. 
