PTEROCLES, 527 



this another white or buffy white band, interrupted on the crown, the feathers 

 of which are buffy white and mesially dark brown ; a buff spot above the 

 hinder angle of each eye ; chin and throat pale buff, their sides the same, with 

 minute black spots ; upper breast, hind neck and back pale or fulvous white, 

 with regular and close barrings of black ; scapulars, wing coverts and tertia- 

 ries the same, the black transverse bars rather broader and deeper in colour, 

 the tips of the feathers broadly yellowish buff ; upper tail coverts fulvous 

 white, the black bars more distant and as wide as the fulvous interspaces ; pri- 

 maries and their coverts hair brown, the outer web of the first margined with 

 dull white, more conspicuous basally, and some of the inner ones with white 

 margins to the tips; secondaries dark brown; lower breast yellowish buff 

 with a narrow black band crossing it in the middle and another on the lower 

 part of the breast, formed by the dark termination of the lowest breast fea- 

 thers ; belo^ r this the abdomen, flanks, vent and under tail coverts are white, 

 with transverse brown bars ; tarsal plumes buffy white ; tail barred buff and 

 black, the terminal black bar broadest, with a streak running up the shaft of 

 the feathers and partially dividing the broad buffy tips. 



The female wants the frontal patch and the semicircular band behind it, 

 also the buff breast and band crossing it in the middle ; the chin and throat 

 are pale buffy, minutely spotted with dark brown ; the upper surface of the 

 body finely, closely and narrowly barred with pale fulvous and dark brown ; 

 the lower surface the same, but the fulvous interspaces are broader and the 

 dark bars narrower ; bill horny ; feet yellow ; irides brown ; orbits lemon 

 yellow. 



Length. IO inches ; wing 7*25 ; tail 3^25 ; bill 0'62. 



Hab. Sind, Punjab, Arabia, N.-E. Africa. 



1184. Pterocles fasciatus (Scop.), Gould, B. Asia, pt. ii. pi. 14 ; 



Jerd., 11L Ind. Orn. pi. IO and 36; id. t B. Ind. ii. p. 498, No. 800 ; Hume, 

 Nests and Eggs Ind. B. p. 511 ; td. 9 S/r. F. i. p. 391 ; vii. p. 160. The 

 PAINTED SAND GROUSE. 



PLATE fig. 3. 



A narrow white band on the forehead followed by a broad black one and 

 succeeded by a narrow white one, and another black one which widens behind 

 the eye and ends in a white spot ; occiput and nape streaked with black and 

 fulvous; sides of the head, neck, breast and shoulder of wing fulvous yellow 

 or buff ; back, scapulars, tertiaries and tail fulvous yellow banded with deep 

 brown; quills, brownish black with narrow pale edging; median and greater 

 coverts and some of the secondaries broadly banded with black and edged with 

 white, ; a triple band a maroon, i creamy white and a chocolate brown one 

 separates the fulvous breast from vhe abdomen, which with the vent and under 

 tail coverts are also chocolate brown, the feathers tipped with white. The 

 female has not the bars on the occiput and nape, nor the pectoral bands and 

 the wing bars ; the sides of the neck, breast, wings, and tail are mixed fulvous 



