6. THE CORONETTED SAND- 

 GROUSE. 



Pterocles coronatus, LICHTENSTEIN. 



Leg feathered ; toes bare. 

 Middle tail-feathers not elongated. 

 Belly barred or of a uniformly pale 



colour. 



Shaft of the first quill of the wing white. 

 Feathers under the tail unbarred. 



MALE : Portion of the throat black. 

 FEMALE : Entire throat pale yellow. 



VERNACULAR NAME : Katinga, Sind. 



THE Coronetted Sand-Grouse is a com- 

 paratively rare visitor to the north-west of 

 India, and has been observed only in Sind, 

 west of the Indus river, and along the 

 Punjab frontier at Dera Ghazi Khan, and 

 at Fort Jamrud near the mouth of the 

 Khyber Pass, where two birds of this 

 species were shot by Dr. Julian Smith in 

 October, as recorded in " Stray Feathers," 

 by Lieut. W. W. Lean. 



This species is found in Afghanistan, 



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