PTEROCLIDA. 299 
head are small and irregular ; on the nape and occiput they are 
more or less arranged in rows (so as to produce more of a striat- 
ed appearance) and in a band running from behind the eye 
round the nape, they are very much more densely set ; on the 
upper tail-coverts they are much larger, while on the scapulars 
they take the form of double spots or irregular bars; the 
primaries and their greater coverts are much as in the male, but 
paler; the central tail-feathers are isabelline dark shafted ; the 
points greyish black, and the rest of the feathers with narrow, 
transverse, irregular bars of the same color on both webs; the 
lateral tail-feathers are much as in the male, but have the basal 
portions more tinged with isabelline, and more or less imperfectly 
barred; the breast, abdomen, aud wing lining are as in the 
male, but somewhat purer and paler; the abdominal patch is 
narrower and perhaps also somewhat paler. 
Within our limits, the Spotted Sand Grouse is only common in 
Sind, but stragglers occasionally find their way into portions of 
Guzerat and even Rajputana. 
A few apparently remain to breed in Sind, but most of them 
are mere cold weather visitants. 
Pterocles coronatus, “Licht. 
801lter——Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 206; Game 
Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 57. 
THE CORONETTED SAND GROUSE. 
Length, 10 to 11°75; wing,7 to 75; expanse, 22 ; tarsus, 0°9 ; 
bill at front, 0°45 ; bill at gape, 0°65. 
Bill pale slaty; irides brown; legs clayey-slate, with china- 
white scute. 
A line on each side of the forehead from the nostrils to above 
the eye black, and a pale fulvous one between these from the 
point of the forehead; crown of the head pale chestnut, vinous 
or rufescent fawn; a pearly grey band from the anterior angle of 
the eye, continued as a supercilium and extending round to the 
nape ; lores and a narrow band edging the black chin and throat- 
stripe, white; sides of the face, ear-coverts, and the neck all 
round orange-buff; base of the neck and upper back isabelline, 
the feathers edged dusky grey; interscapulars the same, with 
median buffy spots at the tips; rump and upper tail-coverts a 
dark or dirty grey, mixed with the fulvous of the base of the 
feathers ; tail with median rectrices of a pale vinous color, dark 
shafted, with a subterminal dark spot, and very narrowly tipped 
with white ; 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 with fulvous-white obliquely to- 
wards the tips on their inner webs,-and also tipped the same ; 
