192 PTEROCLID.E PTEBOCLUKUS 



Asia from Spain to the Indian Peninsula and Africa. Only one of 

 them is found within our limits. 



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646. Pteroclurus namaqua. Namaqua Sandgrouse. 



Tetrao namaqua, Gmel., Syst. Nat. i, p. 754 (1788) ; Burchell, f ravels 

 i, pp. 265, 303 (1822). 



Pterocles tachypetes, Temm. Pig. ct Gall, iii, pp. 274, 715 (1815); 

 Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 277 (1867) ; id. Ibis, 1869, p. 75 ; Ayres, Ibis, 

 1871, p. 262 ; Brydcn, Kloof and Karoo, p. 315 (1889) ; id. Gun and 

 Camera, p. 289 (1893) ; id. Nature and Sport, p. 33 (1897). 



Pteroclurus namaqua, Gurney, in Andersson's B. Damaral. p. 242 

 (1872) ; Grant, Cat. B. M. xxii, p. 10 (1893) ; id. Game Bds. i, p. 11 

 (1896) ; Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 183 (1896) ; Beichenoiu, Vog. Afr. i, 

 p. 318 (1901) ; Whitehead, Ibis, 1903, p. 234 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, 

 p. 4 [Deelfontein]. 



Pterocles namaqua, Elliot, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 252; Bocage, Orn. 

 Angola, p. 396 (1881) ; Holub & Pelts. Orn. Slid- Afr. p. 182 (1882) ; 

 Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. pp. 574, 854 (1884) ; Ayres, Ibis, 

 1886, p. 292 ; Symonds, Ibis, 1887, p. 333 ; Nicolls and Eglington, 

 Sportsm. S. A. p. 109 (1892) ; Fleck, Journ. Ornith. 1894, p. 384. 



"Namaqua Partridge" of English, "Namaqua Patrijs " or "Kelkje 

 Wijn" of Dutch Colonists. 



FIG. 62. Head of Pteroclurus namaqua. x |i 



Description. Adult male. Head and back pale brown, the 

 cheeks, sides of the neck and nape suffused with a mustardy yellow 

 tinge, most of the feathers of the back and wing-coverts with a 

 subterminal buffy yellow blotch and a lilac blue, darkening to black, 

 terminal spot ; primary-quills dusky black, the inner ones with white 

 inner webs and tips; the greater coverts like the quills; tail of 

 sixteen feathers, the two central ones dusky, becoming black at the 

 tip and produced into a point ; lateral ones with conspicuous buff 

 tips ; beldw the chin and throat orange-buff, shading through yellow 

 into pale brown on the chest becoming darker on the lower breast ; 



