Sand- Grouse. 53 



selves appeared. Like all other Sand- 

 Grouse, they are excellent eating, the flesh 

 being rather hard but of delicious flavour ; 

 and our party used generally to shoot a 

 few each evening — not an easy matter, for 

 the great swiftness and power of wing 

 possessed by these birds rendered them, 

 in the dusk especially, by no means an 

 easy shot." 



I cannot find any note regarding the 

 nesting of this species. 



The male has a black band across the 

 forehead with some white in front and 

 behind it. The crown of the head is pale 

 fulvous streaked with black ; the throat, 

 the sides of the head and the neck all 

 round pale fulvous spotted with black. 

 The whole upper plumage, and the visible 

 portions of the closed wings and tail are 

 pale fulvous barred with black, the tips 

 of the tail-feathers being bright yellowish 

 buff". The quills of the wing are brown. 

 The breast is yellowish buff" with a chest- 

 nut band across it. The belly, the sides 

 of the body, and the feathers under the 

 tail are white barred with black, the black 

 bars being much narrower than the white 

 interspaces. The feathers on the tarsus are 

 white without bars. 



The female has the whole head and 



