riEROCLUF.TTS. 



median and the least wing-coverts are pale rufous with the ex- 

 tremity black. The rest of the plumage resembles that of the adult 

 male. Total length 1^*5 inches, wing 7'8, tail 5"5, tarsus 1. 



In immature females the scapulars have the subterminal bands 

 black instead of grey, and the terminal band pale buff, not brighter 

 than the rest of the ground-colour of the back ; the black baud on 

 the upi^er part of the neck is represented by a subterminal spot at 

 the end of each feather, and the sides of the face and neck are also 

 spotted. 



JIab. S.W. Asia ; ranging from Palestine to North-western India, 

 and extending southwards to Bushire at the head of the Persian 

 (iulf, and probably to Arabia, and northwards to Asia Minor, Trans- 

 caucasus, and Turkestan. 



a. (f inim. sk. 



b. 5 inim. sk. 



c. (1. S imm. ; 



$ ad. sk. 

 e. S iuim. sk. 

 i--(/'. c? ? ad. 

 et imiii. sk. 

 h. $ ad. sk. 

 «', k'. tS 2 ad. 



St. 



I', 7)1. 2 ad. sk. 

 «', o'. Skeletons. 



N. of Jacobabad, Xov. 

 Naraina, Jaipur, Dec. ( T. W. 



Bartlett). 

 Gurgaon Dist., Feb. {W. N. 



Chill). 

 Delhi, Dec. {F. Blewitt). 

 Murdan, Jan., Feb., March, 



Dec. (J. R. Ju/uim>i). 

 Afghanistan ( W. Griffith). 

 Bagdad. 



Asia. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



India Museum. 



Sir K. Loftus [P.]. 



Purchased. 

 Purchased. 



Subsp. a. Pterochinis pyrenaicus. 



The Little Pin-tailed Grous, Echc. Glean. Xaf. Hist. v. p. 84, pi. 249 

 (17r,s). 



Gehnote des PvrcSndes, Daubent. PI. Enl. ii. nos. 105 ( J ) & 106 ( $ ). 



Bonasa pyrenaica, Brisft. Orn. i. p. 19o, pi. xix. (17uO). 



Pterocles pjTenaicus, Secbuhm, litis, 1883, p. '2Q. 



Pterocles setarius, Temm. Pit/, cf Gail. iii. pp. 2o0, 714 (1815) [nee 

 Arabia] ; id. Man. d'Orn.' -p- 'iOl (1815) ; id. Man. d'Orn. p. 478 

 (18l'0) ; Jl'at/l. Si/.-if. Av. p. 282 (1827) ; IVern. All. Orn. d'Eur. 

 ord. 10, ]il. 14(1828); Schinz, Kaf. Abbild. FoV/. p. 281 (1833); 

 Gould, li. Europe, \\.\i. 258, pi. (1837) [nee Persia]; Crespm, 

 Orn. Gard, p. 326 (1840) ; Companyo, Hist. Nat. Pyrenies-Orieiit. 

 iii. p. 200(1863). 



GEnas cata, Vicill. N. Diet, d'llist. Nat. xii. p. 418 (1817) [nee 

 Persia] ; Rout, Orn. Pror. ii. p. 20, pis. 248, 249, 381 (1830). 



Pterocles akliata, JSunap. (nee Linn.) leon. Fauna Italica, i. p. 143, 

 pi. 40 (1840); l)e(il. Orn. Enrop. ii. p. 18 (1849); Salvin, Ibis, 

 1859, p. 352 [E. Atlas]; Pou-ys, Ibis, i860, p. 239 [nr. Sicily' ; 

 Linderm. fiit/. Griechenl. p. 122 (1860): Tristram, Ibis, 1860, 

 p. 70 [\. Africa] ; Sperling, Ibis, 1864, j). 284 ; Wri(/hf, Ibis, 1864, 

 p. 139[Maha]; Fitzimi>r, All. Nat. J '(Vy. fig. 247 (1864) : Lilf^rd, 

 Ibis, lb(i5, p. 167, &"1866, p. 379 [Spain]; Drake, Ibis, \>r,7, 

 p. 428 [E. :Moroeco1 ; Dec/l. ^S- Gerbe, Orn. E'urop. ii. p. 23 (1867) ; 

 liree, Ii. Eur. iii. p. 221, p). (1867) ; Smith, Ibis, 1868, p. 451 

 [Portugal]; Saunders, Ibis, 1871, p. 223 [Andalucia] ; Heiajl. 

 Orn. N.O.-Afr. iii. p. 853 (1873) ; Dresser, B. Europe, vii. p. 67, 



