CATALOGUE OF CHARADRIFORMES. 149 
Pterocles. 
PTEROCLIDE. 
SYRRHAPTES, //. 
paradoxus (Pull.). Fourteen. 7 36, 79. England (Northumberland, 
Scremerston, August; Cheshire: Storeton, June; Hoylake). North Wales 
(Tremadoc, July). Russia (Kirghiz Steppes) (?). China (Tientsin, Dec- 
ember). 
tibetanus, (ould. Two. 6, 92. Ladakh (Masinik Pass, October). 
PTEROCLURUS, Bp. 
alchatus (Linn.). Four. 46,39. 
alchatus, swlsp. pyrenaicus (Scebh.). Eleven. 66,59. Spain. Algerian 
Sahara (El Aghouat, November). Tunis (Karuan ; Sfax). 
namaqua ((.). Seven. 44, 39. South Africa (Orange Free State, 
Kroonstadt, September ; Damaraland, Swakop River, September). 
exustus (Zemm.). Nine. 446,59. Egypt (Assouan, January). Northern 
India (Ktawah, February). Southern India (Nellore). 
T senegallus (Linn.). Seven. 3¢,49. Egypt (Nile). Moab (Ziza, Feb- 
ruary ; Belka Kustul, February). Palestine (Wady-el-R’mail, February). 
No. 7, 2, ex Coll. Gen. Davies, is the Type of Libyan Grouse, Lath. Gen. Hist. viii. 
p- 253, pl. exxviii. (1823). 
PTEROCLES, 7emm. 
arenarius (Pall.). Thirteen. 6 ¢,6 9, skel. Spain (Madrid, January). 
Canary Islands (Fuertaventura, Fuineji, March). Algerian Sahara (El Ag- 
houat, November). Turkestan (Borokhudsir, June). Dzungaria. 
decoratus, Cab. 
T variegatus (Buich.). Seven. 34,49. South Africa (“Between Lata- 
koo and the Tropic ”). 
Nos. 2and 3, ¢ and 9, purchased at the sale of Dr. A. Smith’s Collection in 1838, 
are Types of his description and figure (Rep. Exped. Centr. Afr. p. 56 (1836) ; 
Zool. South Afr. pl. x. (1838) ). 
coronatus, Licht, One. @. Algerian Sahara (Waregla, December). 
T gutturalis, Smith. Ten. 6 3,49 (1 jr.). South Africa (Transvaal, May; 
Rustenberg, October ; Potchefstroom, November). 
Nos. 1 and 2, ¢ and @, purchased at the sale of Dr. A. Smith’s Collection in 1838, 
are Types of the species. 
T personatus, Gould. Three. 2¢,9. Madagascar. 
Nos. land 2, g and 9, are the Types of the species. 
fasciatus (Scop.). Six. 3 4, 39. Southern India (Nellore; Madras). 
[Straits of Malacca]. [Abyssinia]. 
lichtensteini, Zemm. Three. $,29. Abyssinia. Arabia (Jeddah). 
bicinctus, Zemm. Three. 2¢, 9. South Africa (Transvaal, May). 
T bicinctus, swisp. pallidior, subsp. nov. 
Pterocles bicinctus (partim), Grant, Cat. Birds, Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 31 (Note) (1893). 
Three. 2 ¢, 2. Damaraland (Otjimbinque, September). 
$. Differing from P. bicinctus typicus in being generally paler, and in the extreme 
narrowness of the bars on the back, which are pale buff about one-fifth the width 
of the interspaces, not rich rufous of equal or nearly equal width to the b/ack 
interspaces as in P. bicinctus. General colour of the mantle and back dull grey, 
with a strong wash of dull yellowish olive green, more marked on the former ; 
white tips to the feathers of the back more pronounced than on the typical form ; 
lesser upper wing-coverts uniform dull golden-olive not brownish grey broadly 
