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blotches of umber, especially towards the base of the egg, where 

 these marks form an encircling zone." 



Male. Black stripe from nostrils to the eye ; sides of head, neck, 

 and throat pale buff; a black line encircles the lower part of the 

 throat, and extends onto the back of the neck, where it is broadest. 

 Top of head dark brown ; back of neck pale greenish yellow. 

 Breast dark greyish buff, with a wash of green. Entire rest of 

 underparts chestnut. Back and inner secondaries greenish grey. 

 Wing-coverts brownish grey, the greater ones tipped with ochra- 

 ceous. Primaries dark brown, with pale edges. Median rectrices 

 greenish grey ; lateral ones black, tinged with ochraceous on edge 

 of outer web, and tipped with light rufous. Under tail-coverts 

 bright chestnut. Iris deep brown. Bill and feet black. 



Total length 1 If inches ; wing 9, tail 4|, bill along gape f-. 



Female. Top of head black ; feathers margined with light buff. 

 Back of neck buff, with a central streak of black. Feathers of back, 

 wings, and breast black, with a large buff spot on each web at the 

 tip, those on lower part of back and wings being rather circular in 

 form, giving those parts a spotted appearance, while the breast and 

 upper part of back seem to be streaked with broad black lines on a 

 buff ground. Secondaries black, scalloped on the edges, and tipped 

 with light buff. Primaries blackish brown. Flanks, abdomen, 

 thighs, and vent deep rufous, narrowly barred with black. Tail 

 black, barred with deep buff along the margins of the webs, and 

 tipped with reddish buff. Upper tail-coverts like the back ; under 

 coverts deep chestnut, barred on their basal half with black. Bill 

 and feet black. 



Total length 1 1 inches, wing 9, tail 4, bill along gape f . 



3. Pterocles coronatus. 



Pterocles coronatus, Licht. Verz. d. Doubl. (1823) p. 65 ; Temm. 

 Planch. Color. (1825) nos. 339, 340 ; Riipp. Neue Wirbelth. (1823- 

 1835) p. 1 14 ; Wagl. Syst. Av. (1827) Pterocles, sp. 4 ; Gray, Gen. 

 B. vol. hi. p. 519 (1849) ; Reich. Syn. Av. Gallinse, pi. ccviii. figs. 

 1815, 1816(1851); Heugl. Syst. Uber. N.O.-Afr. (1855) p. 304 ; 

 Tristr. Ibis (1860) p. 71 ; Von Heugl. Journ. fiir Ornith. (1862) 

 p. 415; Hartm. Journ. fiir Ornith. (1863) pp. 303, 307; Adams, 

 Ibis (1864) p. 27; Allen, Ibis (1864) p. 240; Wyatt, Ibis (1870) 

 pp. 9, 16; Shelley, Ibis (1871) p. 144; id. B. Egypt (1872) p. 

 221 ; Hume, Str. Feath. (1873) vol. i. p. 224 ; Von Heugl. Ornith. 

 Nordost-Afr. (1873) Band ii. p. 863; Wise, Str. Feath. (1876) 

 vol. iv. p. 230. 



Hob. Rare in Egypt and Nubia {Shelley) ; southern parts of the 

 Sahara (Tristram) ; El Kab, Egypt (Allen) ; Nubia and Kordofan 

 (Heuglin) ; Nubia and Arabia (Riippell) ; Plain of El Goa, Sinai 

 (Wyatt); Jacobabad, N.W. Sindh (Hume); Kurrachee district 

 (Wise). 



According to Tristram this Sand-Grouse is confined to the more 

 southern portions of the Sahara, where it supplants P. arenarius. 

 He only met with it in parties of four or five ; and the egg was of an 



