3. PTEROCLES. 27 



Adult male. A wide black baud surrounds the gape ; top of the 

 head and upper back dark isabolline, shading into yellowish on the 

 nape ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts blackish grey, 

 thickly s])otted with whitish buff; primaries, primary-coverts, and 

 secondaries black ; scapulars vinaceoiis brown, paler at the ex- 

 tremities ; rest of the wing-coverts yellowish butf', the secondary- 

 coverts each with a black shaft-stripe extending to within a 

 third of the extremity, and some of the median with a brown 

 terminal baud. Axillaries black ; throat whirc, tinged with buff. 

 Chest vinaceous buff. Sides of breast white, rest of breast and 

 belly rufous buff, all closely barred with black. Tarsi and under 

 tail-coverts butf. Tail of 16 feathers, blackish grey irregularly 

 barred and widely tipped with white. Total length 11-6 inches, 

 wing 8'5, tail 3-7, tarsus 1. 



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

 the head striped with blackish brown ; the nape, upper back, lesser 

 and median wing-coverts regularly barred with the same colour ; 

 the scapulars blackish brown irregularly barred with buff, and the 

 greater secondary-coverts buff irregularly barred with black. Total 

 length ca. 11-5 inches, wing 8, tail 3-4, tarsus 1. 



Hub. Madagascar. 



a,b. (S 2 ad. sk. Madagascar. Capt. Sir E. Belc-her, Ti.X. 



[P.]. (Types of species.) 

 c. J ad. sk. Mourondava, W. coast of Pollen & Van Dam Coll. 



^ladagitscar. 



7. Pterocles fasciatus. 



I^a Oiqinotte des Indes, Sonnerat, Voij. I/id. ii. p. 164, pi. 96 (1782). 



Indian Grous, Lath. Gen. >S>/7i. ii. p. 75- (178."i) ; id. Gen. Hist. viii. 

 p. 260 (182:i). 



Tringa faseiata. Scop. Del. Flur. ef Faun. pt. ii. p. 02 (1786). 



Pterocles fasciatus, Grai/, List Ii. iii. p. 411 ( 1844) ; Grai/, Gen. B. ill. 

 p. 518 (1845) ; Blrjth, Cat. Ii. Mus. As. Soc. p. 249 (1849) ; Goii/d, 

 Ii. Asia, vi. pi. 65 (1850); Jerdon, B. Ltd. ii. p. 498 (1^*68); 

 Gra;i, List B. v. p. 2 (1867) ; Bevan, Ibis, 1868, p. 378 [GwuHor, 

 Umballah J ; Lloyd, Ibis, 187^3, p. 415 [Kattiawar] ; Adam, S. F. 

 i. p 391 (1873) [Sambhur Lake]; Ball, S. F. ii. p. 426 (1874) 

 [Chota Na<>pur], iii. p. 293 (1875) [Palamowl ; Butler, S. F. iv. 

 p. 4 (1876) [Mt. Aboo, X. Guzeratl; Fairbahh, S. F. iv. p. 2ti2 

 (1876) [Khandala Dist.] ; Butler, S.F. v. p. 231 (1S77) [DeesaJ ; 

 Hume ^- Marshall, Game B. Ind. i. p. 59 (1878) ; Flliuf^P. Z. S. 

 1878, p. 254; Hume, S. F. vii. p. 162 (1878) [India, N. of 16° 

 N. lat. & West of 85° E.] ; Bad, S. F. vii. p. 225 (1878) [Ganges 

 to Godaveri] ; Butler, Cat. B. Siud.etc. p. 52 (1879) ; Mchiroy, 

 S. F. viii. p. 492 (187!t) [Mysore Di^-t.] : Butler, S. F. i.\. p. 421 

 (1880) [Deccan, S. Mahratta > ; id. Cat. B. S. Bombat/, p. t>7 

 (1880); Hume, S. F. x. p. 163 (1881) [Jubbulpur] ; Davidson, 

 S. F. X. p. 316 (1882) [Khandeish] ; Su-in/ioe 4" Barnes, Ibis, 

 I88ri, p. 131 [Central India]. 



Tetrao indicus, Gm. S. X. i. p. 755 (1788) ; Bonn. Tabl. Encycl. 

 Meth. i. p. 201. pi. 92. fijr. 1 (1791). 



Perdix indica, Lath. Ind. Oni. ii. p. 650 (1790). 



Ain&s indicus, Vicill. \. D. d'Hist. Nat. xii. p. 422 (1817). 



