rTKROCI.lDURUS. 



Pteroclidurus exustus (Temm.). 



Ptei'ocles seneg^aleusis, T/tten. Fortjjflanz. ges. Vog. p. 49, tab. x. fig. 6 a, h 



(1845-54). 

 Pterocles esu.stus, Biiraess, P. Z. S. 1855, p. 30, Aves, pi. Ixxviii. fio-. 1 ; 



Hume 4- Marsh. Game Birds Ind. i. p. G9 (1879) ; Oates ed. Hume 



Nests t^- Eiiyslnd. B. iii. p. 361 (1890). 

 Pteroeluius exustus, Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxii. p. 12 (1893) ; Oates, 



Game Birds Ind. i. p. 26 (1898). 

 Pteroclidurus exustus, iSharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 50 (1899). 



The eggs of the Common Pin-tailed Sand-Grouse are pinkish 

 stone-colour, greyish white or cream-colour, occasionally tinged with 

 green. The surface-markings consist of spots, specks, sti'eaks and 

 blotches of olive-brown and greyish brown. These markings, as a 

 rule, thickly cover the shell, and occasionally they form a bold ring 

 round one end of the egg. One specimen in the series is perfectly 

 plain. They measure from 1'3 to 1-6 in length, and from -Qo to 

 1-15 in breadth. 



11. 



2. 

 35. 

 18. 



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2. 



India. 



Sind (/. H. Gould). 



Sirsa District. 



Sirsa District, 21st April. 



Sirsa District, 30th April. 



Sirsa District, 8th May. 



Sirsa District, 25th May. 



Sirsa District, 12th June. 



Sirsa District, 1st July. 



Sirsa District, 10th July. 



Sirsa District, 11th July. 



Sirsa District, 12th July. 



Sirsa District, 1st Sept. 



Sirsa District, 3rd Sept. 



Sirsa District *, 7th Sept. 



Hissar, 15th March ( W. Blewitt). 



Hissar, 15th March ( W. B.). 



Hissar, 20th March ( W. B.). 



Hissar, 1st April ( W. B.). 



Hissar, 18th Sept. ( W. B.). 



Hansi, 15th March. 



Hansi, 2ud April. 



Ilansi, 17th May. 



Hansi, 3rd June. 



Hansi, 10th June. 



Delhi, 4th March (C. T. Bingham). 



Gurhi Ilursroo. 13th Ma v. 



Gurgaon, 7th Oct. ( W. N. Chill). 



Agra. 



Etawah, 15th July. 



Etawah, 7th Feb.'( ]V. E. Brooks). 



J hansi, I3th .Tune. 



Sambhur, 21st May {R. M. Adam). 



Gould Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



* All the eggs from the Sirsa District were probably taken by Khan 

 Kizaui-uu-deeu, Klian Bahadoor {cf. Hume, /. v.). 



