224 THREE-BANDED SAND-GROUSE. 



the upper. The inside of the wings and the axil- 

 lary feathers are both of a uniform unspotted cine- 

 reous grey. 



The under plumage may be described in fewer 

 words. From the chin to the breast the colour is 

 of the same buff-yellow or Isabella tint which is the 

 ground colour of the upper plumage ; the chin itself 

 is paler and inclined to white; this colour is bounded 

 just below the breast by three semi-circular bands ; 

 the first is rich chestnut, the second, white, and 

 the third, black, each being about four-tenths of an 

 inch broad ; the rest of the body, as far as the rent, 

 with the flanks and thighs, are narrowly banded 

 with black and greyish-white, the former colour 

 predominating on the belly, but the latter on the 

 flanks and thighs ; tarsi feathered to the toes, and of 

 an unspotted grey ; bill yellow ; feet brown. 



The female differs from the male in the following 

 manner. There is no black in front of the head, 

 and the white patches are so tinged with fulvous 

 that they can scarcely be traced ; the upper part of 

 the neck and its sides are banded with blackish- 

 brown ; there are no bands on the breast, and the 

 inner wing-covers are dark on the middle; the lesser 

 wing-covers, which in the male are pure fulvous, are 

 here obliquely traversed by slender black lines. All 

 the scapulars and most of the tertial quills are dark 

 vinaceous rufous, upon which the black bands are 

 broad and close, leaving the margin of the feathers 

 fulvous ; the primary quills are all tipt with rufous- 

 brown, and their bases, in both sexes, are rather 



