PTEROCLURUS SENEGALLUS 307 



PTEROCLURUS SENEGALLUS. 

 THE SPOTTED SAND-GEOUSE. 



Tetrao senegallus, Linn. Mantissa, p. 526 (1867-71) (Senegal). 



Pterocles senegallus, Shelley, B. of Eijypt, p. 220 (1872) ; Jcvdon, B. 

 of I. iii, p. 501 ; Hume, S. F. i, p. 221 ; id. ibid, xi, p. 331 ; id. ibid. 

 iv, p. 4 ; Butler, ibid, iv ; id. ibid. p. 508 ; Blanford, E. Persia, ii, 

 p. 271 ; Hiome, S. F. v, p. 60 ; Butler, ibid. p. 222 ; Hume, ibid, vii, 

 p. 161 ; Hu7ne, Cat. No. 801 ; Butler, Cat. B. of Sind, p. 53 : Hume £ 

 Marsh. Game-B. i, p. 53 ; Doig, S. F. viii, p. 371 ; Tufnell, ibid, ix, 

 p. 200 ; Barnes, B. of Bom. p. 297 ; Hume's Nests and Eggs, iii, 

 p. 366 ; Bidkley, J. B. N. H. S. xiii, p. 704 ; Nicol. Cumming, ibid. 

 xvi, p. 641; Tomlinson, ibid, xxiv, p. 828 (1916); Jourdain, Bull. 

 B. 0. C. xxxix, p. 27 (1919) ; Harteit, Vog. Pal. p. 1507 (1920). 



Pterocles seneg'alensis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxiv, p. 303. 



Pterocles guttatus, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 64. 



Pteroclurus senegallus, Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. M. xxii, p. 14 ; Blanford, 

 Avifauna B. I. iv, p. 61; Ogilvie-Grant, Ga^ne-B. i, p. 14; Gates, 

 Game-B. i, p. 31 ; Stuart Baker, J. B. N. H. S. xxiii, p. 183. 



Pteroclidurus senegallus, Sharpe, Hand-L. i, p. 50. 



Vernacular Names. Nango Katingo, Gutu, Sind. 



Description. Adult Male. — Crown of head and whole upper 

 plumage to tail a soft isabelline-grey or isabelline, the tail-coverts 

 and sometimes the rump suffused with bright chrome-buff ; edge 

 of the forehead, lores and round the eye grey, produced backwards 

 as far as the nape, where it forms a collar, and on the neck and 

 upper breast below the yellow-ochre chin, throat and ear-coverts and 

 sides of the neck ; the grey on the breast runs up to the throat in a 

 point and next to the uack and breast merges into the colour of 

 those parts ; scapulars pale isabelline-brown at the base changing 

 to a grey penultimate band with buff or ochre tips ; wing-coverts 

 dull isabelline-brown with buff tips, the innermost next the back all 

 huff where visible ; shoulder of wing, greater, median and primary- 

 coverts isabelline-bufl' with brown shafts and suffused with brown at 

 the tips ; primaries the same and with all but the first three tipped 

 and edged on the inner web with buff', this colour increasing in 



