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215. Pterocles coRONATCs, Liclit. Coromtted Sand-Grouse. 



In Egypt and Nubia this species is rare, and does not, to 

 my knowledge, come into the Delta. Dr. A. Leith Adams 

 (Ibis, 1864, p. 27) mentions having shot four out of a flock 

 at the Second Cataract ; and Mr. S. Stafford Allen also killed 

 a pair at El Kab (Ibis, 1864, p. 240). 



Male. — Front of the forehead and over the eye creamy 

 white ; crown of the head cinnamon, surrounded by a band 

 of grey ; a black patch on each side of the beak, joining on the 

 chin, and extending down the centre of the throat ; remainder 

 of the upper part of the throat, cheeks, ear-coverts, and neck 

 yellow, the rest of the plumage sandy colour ; scapulars and 

 wing-coverts mottled with dark brown, with a pear-shaped 

 spot of buff at the tips of the feathers ; primaries blackish 

 brown, slightly edged with sandy colour ; tail, two centre 

 feathers sandy coloixr, without elongated ends, the remainder 

 with a bar of black and broad white tips ; underparts sandy 

 colour, washed with grey on the base of the throat and fore 

 part of the chest ; beak and feet leaden black ; irides brown. 



Entire length 10 inches; culmen 0*6; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 7-7; tarsus 1*2. 



Female. — Generally paler, and without any black on the 

 face and throat, and wanting the grey band ; the crown much 

 paler, and the plumage generally barred with brovni on the 

 crop, back, and wing-coverts. 



Fig. Gould, B. of Asia, part iii. 



