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Jacobabad. 



Fort Junirood, Nov. 



Bussoollah, Nov. (TF. Griffith). 



Kasbgrar (Dr. Selleic). 

 Chaman, Aug. [Sir O. St. John). 

 Sang-bar, Nov. 



Baluchistan, Dec. (O. T. Duhe). 

 Saman-Dasbt, Balucbistau, 



Jan. 

 Yerdikbart, Persia, 7000 ft. 



•July. 

 3Iuscat. 

 Algeria. 

 Wady-balfab (Dodd). 



2nd Cataract of tbe Nile. 



5tb Cataract of tbe Nile. 



DoDgola, Oct. 



5. Pterocles gutturalis. 



Hume Coll. 

 Ilurae Coll. 

 India Museum. 



India Museum. 



Hume Coll. 



Dr. Aitcbison [C.]. 



Hume CoU. 



AV. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Col. Mills [P.]. 

 Purchased. 

 Sbelley Coll. 



Dr. Leith Adams 



[P.]. 

 F. Galton, Esq. [P.]. 



Hr. F. 



[C.]. 



Bobndorff 



Pterocles gutturalis, Smith, Hep. Expi-d. Afr. p. oO (183G) [N. & S. 

 of Kurncbaine]; id. Zool. S. Afr. pi. iii. c^ (18^8), & pi. xxxi. 2 

 (1839); Gray, List B. iii. p. 50 (1844); Heuylin, Orn. N.Ost- 

 Afr. p. 10(3 (184o) [Sboa] ; Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 519 (1845) ; I)es 

 3Iurs, etc. Lefeb. Voy. Aliyss. p. 143 (1845-50) ''Tigr(?] ; Gray, 

 List B. V. p. 3 (1867) ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 278 (1867) ; Gurney, 

 Ibis, 1868, p. 269; Ayres, ii/>,]869, p. 297 [Potcbefstroom] ; 

 Blanford, Geol. &,- Zool. Abyss, p. 421 (1870) [Highlands of 

 Abvssinia] ; Ayres, Ibis, 1871, p. 268 [Limpopo P.] ; lieiigl. Orn. 

 N.b.-Afr. iii. p. 862 (1873); Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 385 [N. 

 Transvaal]; Ayres, Ibis, 1878, p. 298; Elliot, P. Z. S. 1878, 



p. 340 [Rustenburg] ; Fischer, Zeit. yes. Orn. i. p. 379 (1884) 

 [Pangani, Cliaga, & Kilimanjaro! ; id. J. f. O. 1885, p. 117 ; 

 Beichenow, J. f. O. 1887, p. 50 fWembaere] ; S(drad. Ann. Mus. 

 Civ. Genor. xk\i. p. 306 (1888) [Sboa] ; Shellei/, Ibis, 1j?88, p. 294 ; 

 id. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 370 [Useri K.J; Bcithenow. J.f. O. 1891, 

 pp. 142, 337 [Unyamuesi] ; Sharpc, Ibis, 1892, p. 549 [Masailand]. 



Adult male *. A black band from the nostril to the eye ; a narrow 

 buff stripe from above the nostril to the back of the eye ; top of the 

 head dull olivc-buft', shading into dull yellowish buft" on the neck ; 

 chin, cheeks, and throat yellowish buff, divided from the neck by 

 a wide black band. Back, rump, and upper tail-coverts olive- 

 grey, scapulars blackish, with greyish-buff extremities. Primaries, 



* The descriptions of this species are taken from freshly moulted specimens 

 shot in June. iSpecimens in worn plumage have the buff and rufous parts much 

 paler. 



