PTEROCLID.. 297 
Pterocles alchata, Ziv. 
801.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 500; Murray’s Verte- 
brate Zoology of Sind, p. 210; Game Birds of India, Vol. I, 
Chie 
m THE LARGE PIN-TAILED SAND GROUSE. 
Length, 13°5 to 15°5; expanse, 24 to 26; wings, 75 to 85; 
tail, ¢ 5 to 7, 9 3°75 to 6; tarsus, 1 ; weight, 8} to 12 ounces. 
Bill dusky-green to slate color; irides brown; feet dirty or 
dusky-green. 
Forehead and supercilia rusty-fulvous, with a black stripe 
behind the eye; top of the head and nape fulvous with black 
bands ; the general hue above, including the scapulars and shoul- 
ders of the wings, is fulvous or greyish-olive, shaded with fuscous ; 
the scapulars with a few black spots; rump and upper tail- 
coverts bright pale fulvous with narrow black bars; lesser and 
median wing-coverts maroon, white tipped; secondary-coverts 
fulvous with black lunules; greater-coverts and primaries slaty- 
blue on their outer webs, brown internally; tail banded yellow 
and black ; the median pair blackish on their attenuated portion ; 
the outer feathers greyish white, tipped and edged ; beneath, 
the chin and throat are black, edged with rusty; lores and 
face rufous-yellow, with a blackish space round the eyes; breast 
pale fulvous, with a double black band, each of them narrow ; 
abdomen, vent, and lower tail-coverts white, the latter slightly 
black barred ; tarsal plumes whitish. 
The female differs in having the upper plumage barred with 
black and fulvous, with some dusky-ashy spots on the back and 
scapulars; the lesser and median wing-coverts ashy, with oblique 
rufous and black lunules; the throat white; a broad blackish 
demi-collar on the neck, followed by an ashy band tinged with 
rufous ; the median tail-feathers are nearly as long as in the 
male bird. 
It is only in the trans-indus portion of Sind that the Pin- 
tailed Grouse occurs in any numbers, although stragglers are 
occasionally procured much further south. 
It is only a cold weather visitant. 
Pterocles senegalus, Lin. 
801bis.—Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 207; Butler, 
Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 4; Game Birds of India, 
Vol. I, p. 53. 
THE SPOTTED SAND GROUSE. 
Length, 12°4 to 14°7 ; expanse, 22 to 24; wing, 7°3 to 8; tail, 
6,53 to 6, 2?,4to 46; tarsus, 1; bill at front, 0-4 to 0-47; 
weight, 8 to 12 oz. 
Bill pale plumbeous or bluish-white ; irides brown ; feet pale 
plumbeous or bluish-white. 
The male has the whole chin and throat with a patch extending 
