2. PTEROCLCRrS, 15 



Tetrao senegalus, Lath. Gen. Lid. Orn. ii. p. 642 (1790). 



Pterocles senegalus, Gray, List B. iii. p. 50 (1844) ; Gray, Gen. B. 

 hi. p. 519 (1845); Tristram, Ibis, \m(i,i^.l\. [S.Sahara]; Gra>i, 

 List B. X. p. 5 (1807) ; Ilunie, S. F. vii. p. 161 (1878) [N.W. 

 India, Sindli] ; Elliot, P. Z. 8. 1878, p. 243 ; Hume ^- Marshall, 

 Game B. Iml. i. p. 53 (1878) ; Butler, Cat. B. Sind, etc. p. 53 

 (1879) ; Tristr. Palest, p. 122 (1884) ; Hart, Faun. Flor. Sinai, 

 p. 224 (1891). 



Pteroclurus senegalus, Levaill. Explor. Aly&r. p. 234 (18G7). 



Pterocles senegaleusis, liiippell, Viig. N. Ost-Afr. p. 106 (1845) 

 [N. Africa]; Blyth, J. As. Soc. Beny. xxiv. p. 303 (1856) [Somali 

 Land] ; Taylor, Ibis, 1859, p. 50 [Egypt] ; Speke, Ibis, 1860, p. 247 

 [Somali Land] ; Adams, Ibis. 1864, p. 27 [Egypt and Nubia] ; 

 Taylor, Ibis, 1867, p. 67 ; Shelley, Ibis, 1871, p. 144 [Egypt]. 



Pterocles giittatu.o, Licht. Verz. Boubl. p. 04 (1823) ; Temm. PL Col. 

 V. pi. 27 [no. 345] (1825) ; Waql. Syst. Av. p. 283 (1827) ; Gould, 

 B. Asia, vi. pi. 02 (1851); Fmsch ^ Hartlauh, Ost-Afr. p. 566 

 (1870); Bli/th, Ibis, 1872, p. 89; Heuylin, Om. N.Ost-Afr. iii. 

 p. 859 (1873). 



Adult male. Top of the head, back, and rump isabcUine, shading 

 into yellowish buff on the upper tail-coTcrts ; a band of pale grey 

 commences on the lores and passing round the eyes circumscribes 

 the top of the head ; throat and rest of face ochre, base of throat 

 pale grey ; chest and breast, sides of the belly, and flanks like the 

 back but paler ; centre of belly blackish brown ; under tail-coverts 

 white ; primaries and primary-coverts isabelline, the former shaded 

 on the inner web and towards the extremity with dark brown, and 

 the inner ones tipped and partially margined on the inner web with 

 buff, while the latter have incomplete dark brown shaft-stripes ; 

 secondaries brownish black, edged on the inner web with pale buff ; 

 scapulars and rest of wing-coverts dull isabelline brown at the base, 

 shading into dull vinaceous grey and grey, the latter tipped with 

 bufi and the former with dull ochre ; axillaries whitish buff; tail of 

 16 feathers, central pair yellowish buff like the upper tail-coverts, 

 and produced into long black filaments, outer feathers isabelline 

 brown, shading into dull black and tipped with white. Total length 

 13 inches, wing 8, tail 5'4, tarsus 1. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in having the top of the 

 head and remainder of the ujiper surface nearly uniform pale 

 isabelline, and the stripe commencing on the lores and passing round 

 the eye and along the side of the head whitish buff ; all these parts, 

 together with the chest, are ornamented with round black spots ; 

 the throat is paler yellow, and the centre pair of tail-feathers are 

 isabelline barred with blackish grey, and produced into shorter 

 filaments ; the rest of the plumage is the same as that of the male. 

 Total length 12-5 inches, wing "•4, tail 4, tarsus 0-9. 



IlaJ). N. Africa and S.W. Asia, ranging from the Southern Sahara 

 to N.W. India. 



(/. 2 ad. sk. Mhow, May. Lt.-Col. Swinboo 



[P-]- 

 b. (5ad.sk. Pokharun, 70mile3X. of Jodh- Ilume Coll. 



pur, Jan. [Dr. Xcwman). 



