212 PHASIANID^\ 



Asia. In Sind, in especially the Nortliern districts, tlie Pintail is found 

 in flocks, and sometimes in countless numbers ; in the Southern parts 

 it is also found; but evidently only as stragglers. 



Pterocles lichtensteinii, Tem. Planch. Col. 355-361 ; Heuglin, 

 Syst. TJehers. Vog. N. Afr. p. 304 ; Speke, Ibis. p. 247 ; Hume, Sir. F. 

 i. p. 219; Murray, TIdbk., Zool., §'c., Sind, p. 195. Butbur, Sind. — 

 The Close-barred Sand Grouse. 



},£ale. Frontal zone white, or buffy white ; a broad black semicir- 

 cular band behind it extending from the anterior angle of the eye on 

 each side ■ behind this another white or buffy white band, interrupted 

 on the crown, the feathers of which are buffy white and mesially dark 

 brown- a buff spot above the hinder augle of each eye; chin and 

 throat pale buff, their sides the same, with minute black spots ; upper 

 breast, hind neck and back pale or fulvous white, with regular and close 

 bannngs of black ; scapulars, wing-coverts and tertiaries the same, the 

 black transverse bars' rather broader and deeper in colour, the tips of 

 the feathers broadly yellowish buff; upper tail-coverts fulvous white, the 

 black bars more distant and as wide as the fulvous interspaces; pri- 

 niaries and their coverts hair brown, the outer web of the first margined 

 with dull white, more conspicuous basally, and some of the inner ones 

 with white niargius to the tips; secondaries dark brown; lower 

 breast yellowish buff with a narrow black band crossing it in the middle 

 and another on the lower part of the breast, formed by the dark 

 termination of the lowest breast feathers ; below this the abdomen, 

 flanks vent and under tail-coverts are white, with transverse brown 

 bars • tarsal plumes buffy white ; tail barred buff and black, the 

 terminal black bar broadest, with a streak running up the shaft of the 

 feathers and partially dividing the broad buffy tips. 



The Female wants the frontal patch and the semicircular band 

 behind it, also the buff breast and band crossing it in the middle ; the 

 chin and throat are pale buffy, minutely spotted with dark brown ; the 

 upper surface of the body finely, closely and narrowly barred with pale 

 fulvous and dark brown ; the lower surface the same, but the fulvous 

 interspaces are broader and the dark bars narrower ; bill horny ; feet 

 yellow ; irides brown ; orbits lemon yellow. 



Length.— 10 inches, wing 7-25, tail 3-25, bill 0-62. 



ila?>.— Sind, Punjab, Arabia, N. E. Africa. 



Family, PHASIANID^. 

 Sub-Family, PAVONINE,— Pea-Fowl. 

 Pavo cristatus, Linn. — The Common Peacock. 



This bird is too well-known to need a description. Introduced in Sind. 

 Family, TETRAONID^,— Partridges. 



Bill generally short and thick ; wings short and rounded^ in most ; 

 tail short ; tarsus short and strong ; face feathered usually with a small 

 bare patch over or round the eye. 



Sub-Family, PBRDICIN^. 



Tarsus bare ; orbits not naked ; tarsus generally spurred. 



