3. THE COMMON PIN-TAILED 

 SAND-GROUSE. 



Pteroclurus exustus^ (TEMMINCK). 



Leg feathered ; toes bare. 

 Middle tail-feathers elongated. 

 Belly more or less dark-coloured. 

 Dark colour of the belly extending to 

 the sides of the body. 



MALE : Belly uniform chocolate-brown. 



FEMALE : Belly barred with chocolate- 

 brown and fulvous. 



VERNACULAR NAMES \-Bur-titur, Bukht- 

 titur, Kumar-tit, Kuhar, Hind. ; Buta- 

 bur, Batibun, Sind ; Popandi, Bhil ; 

 Pakorade, Pokurdee, Pokundi, Marathi ; 

 Palki, Belgaum ; Jamfiolonka, Telugu ; 

 Kal gowjal haki, Canarese ; Kal-Kon- 

 dari, Tamil. 



THE Common Pin-tailed Sand-Grouse is 

 a permanent resident over a very large 

 portion of the Indian Peninsula extending 

 from the Punjab and Sind to Behar and 

 Chutia Nagpur on the east (and even to 

 Calcutta as a straggler), and down to 

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