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tips ; rump and upper lail-coverts a dark or dirty grey, mixed wilh the fulvous 

 of tlie base of the feathers ; tail wilh the median rectrices of a pale vinous 

 colour, dark shafted, with a subterminal dark spot, and very narrowly lipped 

 with while ; 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 ; primaries and their coverts dull grey or dusky brown ; 

 all the primaries, except the first three, broadly margined wilh fulvous white 

 obliquely towards the tips on their inner webs, and also slightly lipped the 

 same ; secondaries hair brown ; tertiaries vinous on their inner webs and 

 edged on the outer with buflish ; scapulars vinous at the base, dark shafted, 

 with a subterminal dark band, and mesially lipped with a nearly oval buff 

 spot ; median wing coverts the same ; the greater series greyish buff or buffy 

 isabelline; abdomen, flanl-.s, under wing coverts, vent and lower tail coverts 

 white, slightly soiled on the middle of the abdomen, and in some specimens a 

 pale isabelline ; tarsal plumes white. 



The ff7n ale has the throat and sides of the neck orange buff ; the chin pater 

 and nearly albescent ;. the crown very pale cinnamon ; entire upper surface 

 buff, with, in some specimens, a vinous tinge and barred with numerous 

 crescentic and broken bands of dark brown ; breast and under parts paler 

 hufi, also wilh crescentic bands ; the flanks albescent ; scapulars largely 

 blotched with dusky, and wilh buff lips ; primaries and secondaries as in the 

 male, but very pale or hair brown. 



Length. — 1 175 to 12 inches ; wing 7 to 775 ; tail 375 ; bill at front 0'4:S. 



Hah. — Sind, Persia, Beloochistan, Afghanistan, N.-W, Arabia, Egypt and. 

 Nubia. Breeds in the southern portions of llie Sahara, where it is said lO' 

 replace P. arenan'us, 



55. Pteroeles senegallllS, Liu. ^fanffsxa. 1771, p. 526; Lath., 

 Lid. C)/-;/. vol. ii. p. 642 ; Gray., Gen. 7>. vol. iii. p. 519; Tristram, Ibis, 

 l860'; Sir. F. i. p 221 ; iii. pp. 41S. 4 ; v. 231 ; Murray, Hdbk., Zool,, 8,'-c., 

 Sind, p. 197. Pteroeles guttalus, LJcht. Verz. Doubl. Pteroeles senegalensis, 

 Shaw, Nat. Misc. vol. iv. [)1. 933 ; Shetlcy, Lbis, 187 1, p. 144. — The Spotted 

 S.\ND Grouse. 



PLATE, f^g. I.. 



"The male has the whole chin and throat with a patch extending 

 upwards from the throat, towards, but not quite meeting on the back of the 

 neck, bright buffy yellow or orange buff ; lores, forehead, a broad stripe over 

 the eye continued round the nape and the back of the neck, pale- blue grey, 

 dull and tinged fawny in some specimens ; crown, occiput, and nape, a sort 

 of dove colour or pale, slightly rufous fawn ; back and rump a somewhat 

 similar, but more sandy colour, in many specimens more tinged with fawn ; 



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