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[1310.] TuRTUR RisoRius. The Indian King-Dove. 



Rattray, J. B. N. H. S. xii. p. 344 (Thall : common) ; 

 Marshall, op. cit. xv. p. 355 (common summer visitor) ; 

 Fulton, op. cit. xvi. p. 60 (common in summer) ; Gumming 

 t. c. p. 691 (very rare in Seistan) ; AVard, op. cit. xvii. 

 p. 943 (Kashmir). 



Abundant in summer, the majority leaving in autumn, 

 though many stay for the winter. In the Kurram Valley 

 the bird is common up to Dandar, but rather scarce higher 

 up. I have met with it, however, as high as 8500 feet. 



[1311.] CEnopopelta tranquebarica. The Red Turtle- 

 Dove. 



Rattray, J. B. N. II. S. xii. p. 345 (rare at Thall); Ward, 

 op. cit. xvii. p. 943 (rare in Kashmir). 



A summer visitor to the District, and fairly numerous 

 from the second week in April till August. 



[1316.] Pterocles arenarius. The Black-bellied Sand- 

 Grouse. 



Rattray, J. B. N. H. S. xii. p. 345 (Thall : passes through 

 in March); Marshall, op. cit. xv. p. 353 (Quetta : common 

 in autumn and. spring); Gumming, op. cit. xv^i. p. 691 (said 

 to occur in Seistan); Ward, op. cit. xvii. p. 943 (Jummu). 



Large flocks occur in the cold weather in the fields 

 around Doaba and occasionally round Lachi and Dhano. I 

 flushed a bird on the 21st of June, 1906, on the stony plain 

 near Dhandar in the Kurram Valley, which was possibly 

 breeding in the neighbourhood. 



[1317.] Pterocles fasciatus. The Painted Sand-Grouse. 



Ward, J. B. N. H. S. xvii. p. 944 (Jummu). 



A rare bird, probably resident. Mr. Donald told me that 

 he had frequently flushed a pair of strange Sand-Grouse in 

 the scrub-jungle west of Shinauri (3800 feet), but that for a 

 long time they managed to ef«cape. Eventually, however, 

 one was brought to bag and on being compared with Hume 

 and MarshalFs ' Game Birds of India ^ was found to corre- 

 spond exactly with this species. This is not the first record 

 of its occurrence west of the Indus. In 1902, Major Barton, 



