2. PTEROCLUBUS. 7 



B. Lower breast and belly not pure white. 



c. Shaft of first primary white. 



e'. A white and chestnut pectoral zone, belly 



uniform namaqua c? , p- 10. 



/'. No pectoral zone, belly transversely 



barred namaqua $ , p. 10. 



d. Shaft of first primary dark. 



g'. Chest and upper breast immacidate. 

 a". A narrow white and black pectoral 



zone exustus c? , p. 12. 



b". No pectoral zone seneyallus S , P- 1-^- 



//'. Chest and upper breast spotted. 

 c". Spots on chest and upper breast 



blotchy, and terminated by two or 



three transverse rows of bars ; back 



transversely barred _. . exustm $ , p.' 12. 



d". Chest and upper parts covered with 



round black spots senegallus $ , p. 14. 



1. Pterochirus alchata. 



Pintailed Grous, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 748 (1783) ; id. Gen. Hist. 



viii. p. 250 (1823). 

 Tetrao alchata, Linn. S. N. i. p. 276 (17G6); Gm. S. N. i. p. 754 

 (1788) ; Lath. Lnd. Orn. ii. p. 041 (1790) ; Bonn. Tabl. Encycl. 

 Meth. i. p. 203, pi. 92. fig. 3 (1791). 



rterocles alchata, Temminck, Man. d'Orn. p. 302 (1815) ; Steph. 

 Shaiv's Gm. Zool. xi. p. 311 (1819) ; Lichf. Verz. Doubl. p. 64 

 (1823) ; Kaup, Das Theirreich, ii. pt. 1, p. 61, fig. (1836) ; Gray, 

 List of B. pt. iii. Gall. p. 48 (1844) : id. Gen. B. iii. p. 518 (1845) ; 

 Blyth, Cat. B. As. Soc. p. 249 (1849) ; Jerdun, B. lnd. ii. p. 500 

 (1863) ; Grat/, List B. v. p. 4 (1867) ; Fritsch, Nat. Vog. EurojMS, 

 p. 274 (1870), p. 632, fig. 10 (1871) : Severtz. Turkest. Jevotnie, p. 68 

 (1873); Hume, S. F. i. p. 221 (1873) [Sindh] ; Serertz. J. f. O. 

 1875, p. 181 [Turkestan] ; Bleioitt, S. F.m. p. 268 (1875) [Gurgaon 

 Dt.]; Blanford, E. Persia, ii. p. 271 (1876) [Persia]; Dresser, 

 lii^f, 1876,p. 322 [Turkestan]; Hume, S. F. vii. p. 161 (1878) 

 [W. Kajpootana, Punjab, \\. Cashmere]; Elliot, P. Z. S. 1878, 

 p. 250; Hume ^- Marshall, Game B. Did. i. p. 77, pi. (1878); 

 Seehohm, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 764 [Atreck Valleyt; Butler, Cat. B. 

 Si7id, etc. p. 53 (1879); Barnes, Str. F. ix. p. 4.-)8 (1880) [S. Af- 

 ghanistan] ; Swinhoe, Ibis, 1882. p. 118 [S. Afghanistan] ; Seebchm, 

 this, 1883, p. 25 [Caucasus] ; Eadde, Orn. Caucas. p. 3.33 (1884) ; 

 Tristr. Palest, p. 122 (1884) ; Scully, M. S^- B. N. Afghan, p. 86 

 (1887) ; St. John, Ibis, 1889, p. 174 [S. AfghanistanJ. 



Tetrao caudacutus, -S. G. Gmel. Beise, iii. p. 93, pi. xviii. (1774). 



Tetrao chata, Pallas, Zoogr. Bosso-Asiat. ii. p. 73 (1811) [Bokhara]. 



Pterocles chata, Demid. 'Voy. Buss. Mcrid. iii. p. 222 (1840) [Cau- 

 ca.*us] ; Bogd. B. Caucasus, p. 126 (1879). 



Pterocles arenarius, Guerin-Meneville {nee Pall.), Icon. Big. Anim., 

 Ois. p. 26, pi. 44. fig. 3 (1829-38). 



Pterocles caspius, MOnitr. Cat. Pais, de ZooL p. 47 (1832). 



Pterocles sewerzowi, Bogdanow, Mel. Biol. xi. p. 61 (1881) ; id. Bull. 

 Ac. Sci. St. PMersb. xxvii. p. 168 (1881) : id. J.f. O. 1882, p. 115 

 [Turkestan, Transcaucasus, N. Persia] ; Zaroudn. Bull. Mosc. Lsi. 

 p. 321 (1885) [Transcaspia] ; Pleske, Mem. Ac. St. Petersb. (7) 

 xxxvi. no. 3, p. 46 (1888) [Tschiuas, Turkestan]. 



Pterocles severtzovi, Zaroudn. Bull. Mosc. n. s. iii. p. 810 (1890). 



