520 PTEROCLID/E. 



A. " Without pectoral band. 



(a) Stripe on each side of forehead from nostril to above 

 the eye; chin and centre of throat black.../*, corona/us. 



(b} Lores and band encircling back of head pearly grey ; 

 cheeks, ear-coverts and throat orange yellow ; centre of 

 abdomen black ..., P. senegalhis. 



B. With pectoral band. 



(a) Without black bar on forehead. 



(a') Median rectrices not lengthened beyond rest ; upper part 

 of throat and sides of neck rufous ; lower portion of throat 

 black ; band on lower part of breast, abdomen and flanks 

 black P. arenarius. 



(&') Median rectrices greatly lengthened beyond the rest. 



(a") Throat yellow ; black band across breast ; abdomen and 

 flanks chestnut P. exustus. 



(b") Throat and stripe behind the eye black ; sides of throat 

 rufous ; centre of breast chestnut, bordered above and below 



with black ; rest of under parts white P. alchata. 



() With black bar on forehead. 

 (a') Breast uniform greenish buff. 



(a") Throat pale buff ; upper part of breast buff, crossed with 

 numerous narrow black bars ; middle of breast uniform buff, 

 crossed in the centre by a narrow black bar and another of 

 the same hue on its lower edge ; rest of under parts yellowish 

 white, barred narrowly with black P. lichtensteini. 



(b") Throat and breast buff ; triple band separates the 

 fulvous breast from the abdomen, the first maroon, the 

 second creamy white, and the 3rd unspotted chocolate 

 brown .P.fasciatus. 



1178. PterOCleS COronatllS, Lichl. Verz. d' Doubl. p. 65 ; Tern. 

 PL Col. No. 339, 340; Heugl. Syst. Ueber. N. O. Afr. p. 304; Ibis, 1864, 

 pp. 27, 240 ; id., 1870, pp. 9, 16; 1871, p. 144; Sir. F. i. p. 224; id. 

 (1876) ; iv. p. 230; Elf., East. Pers. ii. p. 272 ; Murray, Hdbk., Zool., fyc. y 

 Sind, p. 200; Elliott, P. Z. S. 1878, No. 282. THE CORONATED SAND 

 GROUSE. 



PLATE, fig. 



Male. 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 



