L.VGOPUS IIYPEEBOREUS.
Sl'lTZHKIiGEX I’TAKJllG AS.
LAfidl'l-S lrYr'UllB.IIU!US, J o . „ , Mr Or.iM., |1 » 1 ) p 371
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LAGOl’US JllvMILEUCURUS. (Jo..),!, Proc. Zool. Soc.. 1858, 3.54.
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that is known regarding tlii
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vampio: d couipri.xes ail
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great Aimety, Imt of a gloomy and somi.rc Ime. in strict keeping with the wildness of tl.e s
abiiminiicc. I may remark that the Ptarmigan iverc s.. tame, that wc could easily hai
being so unaccustomed to the intrusion of luiiuan visitors,"
I now give au extract from a letter v
iieic, too, tlie I
■ knocked them down with a
c covered w ith lichens i
by Professor Siimiwall to Pi'ofossor liaird, rcplvi.i"- IS made by tlic latter, a
idv , 0,100.., rotordPr. U.o .pooio.o... of thi, Pird o.otoP.od i„ ,1.« „.o.too, ot StooHt.lm ■
n .5 8 ) lust* be*,he* r ’" ' ’- " ‘' I - Hcmiieucnrus of Gould
1 ,' , “■ >1' Uaimard s \Yya,ge(pul.lished before I84T. or, as I remember in I 845i
Tho only d.lTereuco ... tl.e dcscriptiou is. that Gould says the rectriecs are half pari white imt
their length white: wl.ich dilfereuee may arise from age or sex, as .ioahls is a feniaio, ami on
specimeius The first, a male in summer pl.i.iiage, shot Ut of Augu.st. 18.38, at liellsund, al.otn
the only one seen during the expedition, although we remained ton days a t liellsmKl. Of this specimen there is an exeelie.it figure
d coiorcd licro in Stockholm liy one Wilhelm vou M'l igli
ir «(leeimens the •e scarcelv o
r : ’ 4 0 'latitude, aud pie|.ared hy myself. J
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table, tlie total length w ould l.o more than 400 millimetres. Tarsus, 37 luiliinic niitdic t , 2.5, and with eiaw, 41 millimet. Tlie wiug is