. A dictionary of birds . latter has long since been otherwise preoccupied in zoology. If therebe need to set aside Prof. Huxleys term, Bonapartes PecUophili (as abovementioned) may be accepted, and indeed has priority of all others. ■ Bonaparte {Compt. rend. xiii. p. 880) proposed to separate the Pin-tailedSand-Grouse as Pteroclurus, and therein has been followed by Mr. Ogilvie Grant{Cat. B. Br. Mus. xxii. pp. 2, 6), but this separation seems needless. 8o6 SAND-GROUSE five other species of Pterodes, of which however only one, P. fasciatus,is peculiar to Asia, while the others inhabit Africa a
. A dictionary of birds . latter has long since been otherwise preoccupied in zoology. If therebe need to set aside Prof. Huxleys term, Bonapartes PecUophili (as abovementioned) may be accepted, and indeed has priority of all others. ■ Bonaparte {Compt. rend. xiii. p. 880) proposed to separate the Pin-tailedSand-Grouse as Pteroclurus, and therein has been followed by Mr. Ogilvie Grant{Cat. B. Br. Mus. xxii. pp. 2, 6), but this separation seems needless. 8o6 SAND-GROUSE five other species of Pterodes, of which however only one, P. fasciatus,is peculiar to Asia, while the others inhabit Africa as well, and allthe remaining species belong to the Ethiopian Region—one, )ersonatus, being peculiar to Madagascar, and four occurring in oron the borders of Cape Colony. Syrrhaptei, though in general appearance resembling Pterodes,has a conformation of foot quite unique among birds, the threeanterior toes being encased in a common podotheca, Avhich iscovered to the claws with hairy feathers, so as to look much like. Syrrhaptes paradoxus. (From the Prospectus of Yarrells British Birds, ed. 4.) a fingerless glove, while the hind toe is wanting. The two speciesof Syrrhaptes are *S. tihetaniis—the largest Sand-Grouse known—inhabiting the country whence its trivial name is derived, and ^S*.paradoxus, ranging from Northern China across Central Asia tothe confines of Europe, which it occasionally, and in a marvellousmanner, invades, as has been already mentioned (Migration, ). Here the subject, which has a large literature of its own,^must be treated very concisely. Hitherto known only as aninhabitant of the Tartar steppes, a single example was obtained at ^ Dr. Leverkiihn has been at great pains to compile a bibliography of Syrrhapteswliich will be found in the Monatsschrift des Dcutschcn Verein zum Schutzc derVocjelwdt for 1888-92. SAND-GROUSE 807 Sarcpta on the Volga in the winter of 1848. In May 1859 a pairis said to have been killed in the Government of Vilna on t
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