PTEKOGLES CORONATUS ATRATUS '265 



PTEROCLES CORONATUS ATRATUS (Hartert). 

 THE CORONETTED SAND-GROUSE. 



Pterocles coronatus, Lick. Verz. Doubl. p. 65 (1823) ; Hume, Ibis, 1872, 

 p. -168 ; id. ,S'. F. i, p. 224 ; Wise, ibid, iii, p. 267 ; Hume, ibid. p. 41 ; 

 Wise, ibid. p. 230 ; Blanford, E. Persia, ii, p. 272 ; Hmne, S. F. vii, 

 p. 161 ; Hume £ Marsh. Game-B. i, p. 57 ; Butler, Cat. B. of Sind, etc. 

 p. 53 ; Tufnell, S. F. ix, p. 200 ; Barnes, ibid. pp. 219, 458 ; Lean, 

 ibid. p. 296 ; Barnes, B. of Bom. p. 209 ; id. J. B. N. H. S. v, p. 336 ; 

 Ogilvie-G-rant, Cat, B. M. xxii, p. 23 ; Blanford, Avifauna of B. I. iv, 

 p. 37; Oates, Game-B. i, p. 41; 0<jilvie- Grant, Game-B. i, p. 18; 

 Le Mess. Game-B. p. 57. 



Pteroclis coronatus, Shari)e, Hand-L. p. 51 ; Gates, Cat. Eggs B. M. i, 

 p. 51. 



Pterocles coronatus atratus, Hartert, Bull. B. 0. U. February, 1902 ; 

 Stuart Baker, J. B. N. H. S. xxii, p. 427 ; Hartert, T'rv/. Pal p. 1509 

 (1920). 



Vernacular Name. Katinga, Sin. 



Adult Male. — Centre of forehead white, a broad patch of black ou 

 either side carried round the base of the bill and down the centre 

 of the throat as a broad streak ; crown dull vinous-grey or vinous- 

 bufi, surrounded by a pure french-grey which forms a broad super- 

 cilium and divides the crown posteriorly from the bright, deep ochre 

 of the collar on the neck ; lores and next the anterior black of the 

 chin and throat white, merging into the yellow-ochre of the side of 

 the face, throat and neck. Rest of the upper parts isabelline, the 

 feathers of the inter scapulary region and the lower back and upper 

 rump with pale centres, giving a faintly mottled appearance to these 

 parts ; scapulars the same, but with a bar of grey below the pale spot, 

 produced on either side towards the tip. Primary-coverts and bastard- 

 wing brown, primaries brown, the fifth edged pale-buff on the tip of 

 the inner web, this buff tip increasing in width on each succeeding 

 feather and forming a broad butf band obliquely across the inner 

 primaries; secondary-coverts buff, median coverts rufous-buff or vinous- 

 buff, with pale centres and oblique grey patches on the outer visible 

 webs ; small shoulder-coverts vinous-buff gradually changing into the 



