206 PTER0CLID.1:. 



{b) Lores and band encircling back of head pearly 

 grey ; clieeks, ear-coverts and throat orange yellow ; 

 centre of abdomen black F. senegallus. 



B. With pectoral band. 



{a) Without black bar on forehead. 



{a') Median rectrices not lengthened beyond rest; upper 

 part of throat and sides of neck rufous ; lower portion 

 of throat black ; band on lower part of breast, abdomen 



and flanks black P. arenarins. 



{h') Median rectrices greatly lengthened beyond the rest, 

 (rt)" Throat yellow ; black band across breast ; abdomen 

 and flanks chestnut P. exustus. 



{b") Throat and stripe behind the eye black; sides of 

 throat rufous ; centre of breast chestnut, bordered 

 above and below with black ; rest of under parts 

 white P. alcliata. 



[b) With black bar on forehead. 



(a') Breast uniform greenish buff". 



[a") Throat pale buff"; upper part of breast buff, crossed 

 with numerous narrow black bars ; middle of breast 

 uniform buff, crossed in the centre hj a narrow black 

 bar and another of the same hue on its lower edge ; 

 rest of under parts yellowish white, barred narrowly with 

 black P. licMensteini." 



PterOCles COronatUS, LicJd. Verz. d' Donhl. p. 65 ; Tern. PL 

 Col. No. 339, 340 ; Heugl. SyU. Ueber. N. 0. Afr. p. 304 ; Ibis. 1864, pp. 

 27, 240; ui 1870, pp. 9,16;' 1871, p. 144; Str. F. i. p. 224; id. (1876); 

 iv. p. 230 ; BIf. East. Pcrs. ii. p. 272 ; Murraij, Edbk., Zool., Sic, Sind, 

 p. 200; EUiott, P. Z. S. 1878, 282.— The Coronated Sand Grouse. 



Male. — A line on each side of the forehead from the nostrils to above 

 the eye black, and a pale fulvous one between these from the point of the 

 forehead. Crown of the head pale chestnut, vinous or rufescent fawn. 

 A pearly grey band from the anterior augle of the eye, continued as a 

 supercilium and extending round to the nape ;* lores and a narrow 

 band edging the black chin and throat stripe white ; sides of the face, 

 ear-coverts and the neck all round orange buff"; base of the neck and 

 upper back isabelline, the feathers edged dusky grey ; interscapulars 

 the same, with median buffy spots at the tips ; rump and upper tail- 

 coverts a dark or dirty grey, mixed with the fulvous of the base of the 

 feathers ; tail with the median rectinces of a pale vinous colour, dark 

 shafted, with a subterminal dark spot, and very narrowly tipped with 

 white ; lateral feathers deeper vinous with also a subterminal dark bar, 

 and broadly tipped with white; all the feathers with a few dusky sprinkles 

 behind the dark band ; primaines and their coverts dull grey or dusky 



* In two specimens I possess there is a distinct pearly grey band across tlie 

 forehead immediately behind the termination of the black forehead stripes. 



