. A hand-book to the game-birds . ut the mantle andback grey, finely mottled with black; wings and shoulder-feathers Kght reddish-brown, the latter not tipped with white;general colour of the upper-parts much paler than in ; breast and belly mostly white. Adult Female—Mantle pale rufous and buff, strongly barredwith black ; the breast and belly buff or whitish-buff, barredwith black; and the general colour of the plumage paler thanin T. urogallus, the white tips to the shoulder-feathers beingmuch wider. Range.—The Ural Mountains. Although at first sight this splendid Capercailzie,
. A hand-book to the game-birds . ut the mantle andback grey, finely mottled with black; wings and shoulder-feathers Kght reddish-brown, the latter not tipped with white;general colour of the upper-parts much paler than in ; breast and belly mostly white. Adult Female—Mantle pale rufous and buff, strongly barredwith black ; the breast and belly buff or whitish-buff, barredwith black; and the general colour of the plumage paler thanin T. urogallus, the white tips to the shoulder-feathers beingmuch wider. Range.—The Ural Mountains. Although at first sight this splendid Capercailzie, by far thehandsomest of the genus, appears to be remarkably distinctfrom typical examples of T. urogallus from Norway and Swe-den, I have examined numerous examples in intermediatestages of plumage between the dark Scandinavian bird andthe light-coloured Ural form. These intermediate birds comeinto the London market in considerable numbers, and arebelieved to be imported from some of the more southern ■■^4^-^.:: -a^;::-.^. ■y,-^^ URAL CAPERCAILZIE. THE CAPERCAILZIES. 53 provinces of Russia, but, so far, I have been unable to ascer-tain the exact locaHty whence they are obtained. It must beadded that, though some of these intermediate birds havemuch white on the breast and belly, and are altogether lighterthan Western European examples, the Ural birds are so verymuch paler, and show no trace of variation among themselves,that they may be fairly considered at present as representing awell-marked geographical sub-species, though most probablyfuture investigations will show that they completely intergradewith typical western and eastern forms. II. THE SLENDER-BILLED CAPERCAILZIE. TETRAOPARVIROSTRIS. Tetrao urogalloides, Middend. (;?^^Nilss.*), Sibir. Reise, ii. pt. ii. p. 195, pi. xviii. (1851); Elliot, Mon. Tetraon. pi. vi. (1865).Tetraoparvirostris^ Bonap. C. R. xlii. p. 880 (1856); Ogilvie- Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 66 (1893). Adult Male.—Mantle brownish-bla
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