PTEROCLES. 521 



. 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 the median rectrices of a pale vinous 

 colour, dark shafted, with a subtermin'al 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 towards the tip.s on their inner webs, and also slightly tipped the 

 same ; secondaries hair brown ; tertiaries vinous on their inner webs and 

 edged on the outer with buffish ; scapulars vinous at the base, dark shafted, 

 with a subterminal dark band, and mesially tipped with a nearly oval buff 

 spot ; median wing coverts the same ; the greater series greyish buff or buffy 

 isabelline ; abdomen, flanks, under wing coverts, vent and lower tail coverts 

 white, slightly soiled on the middle of the abdomen, and in some specimens a 

 . pale isabelline ; tarsal plumes white. 



The female has the throat and sides of the neck orange buff ; the chin paler 

 and nearly albescent; the crown very pale cinnamon; entire upper surface 

 buff, .with, in some specimens, a vinous tinge and barred with numerous 

 crescentic and broken bands of dark brown ; breast and under parts paler 

 buff, also with " crescentic bands ; the flanks albescent ; scapulars largely 

 blotched with dusky, and with buff tips ; primaries and secondaries as in the 

 male, but very pale or hair brown. 



Length. 1 175 to 12 inches ; wing 7 to 775 ; tail 375 ; bill at front 0*45. 



Hal. Sind, Persia, Beloochistan, Afghanistan, N. W. Arabia, Egypt and 

 Nubia. Breeds in the southern portions of the Sahara, where it is said to 

 replace P. arenarius. 



1119. Pterocles senegallus, Lin. Mantissa. 1771,?. 526; Lath., 



Ind. Orn. vol. ii. p. 642 ; Gray, Gen. B. vol. iii. p. 519; Tristram, Ibis, 

 1860 ; Sir. F. i. p. 221 ; iii. pp. 418, 4 ; v. 231 ; Murray ', Hdbk.> Zool,, fyc., 

 Sind, p. 197. Pterocles guttatus, Licht. Verz. DoubL, Pterocles senegalensis, 

 Shaw, Nat. Misc. vol. iv. pi. 933 ; Shelley, Ibis, 1871, p. 144. THE SPOTTED 

 SAND GROUSE. 



.PLATE, fig. i. 



"The male has the whole chin and throat with a patch extending 

 upwards' from the throat, towards, but not quite meeting on the back of the 



* In two specimens I possess there is a distinct pearly grey band across the forehead 

 immediately behind the termination of the black forehead stripes. 



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