248 MR. D. G. ELLIOT ON THE PTEROCLID^E. [Feb. 19, 



dark brown, crossed with narrow indistinct brownish-black lines, and 

 tipped with buffy white. Under tail-coverts black, tipped with 

 white. Thighs brownish black ; tarsi covered in front with short 

 buffy-white feathers. Bill brownish, with a black tip. Total length 

 1 H inches, wing 9, tail 3|, bill along gape •§•. 



A young bird from Erzeroum has the head, back, wings, and breast 

 light buff, with a central line and one or more bars on each feather 

 black, some crossing in a direct line, some in the shape of arrow- 

 heads. Primaries greyish black, with buffy-white tips. Abdomen 

 and flanks black. Middle rectrices light buff, crossed with nume- 

 rous narrow curved black bars ; the lateral ones greyish black along 

 the shafts, buff on the outer margin, barred with black and tipped 

 with white, this last increasing in extent as it goes towards the ex- 

 ternal feather. Under tail-coverts brownish black, and tipped with 

 white. 



7. Pterocles exustus. 



Bahtah Grous, Lath. Gen. Hist. Birds, vol. viii. (1823) p. 258. 



Pterocles senegalensis, Licht. (nee Shaw), Verz. Doubl. p. 64 

 (1823). 



Pterocles exustus, Tern. PI. Col. (1825) nos. 354, 360 ; Wagl. 

 Syst. Av. (1827), Pterocles, sp. 9 ; Riipp. Neue Wirbelth. (1823-35) 

 p. 114; Less. Trait. Ornilh. (1831) p. 517, sp. 9; Sykes, Proc, 

 Zool. Soc. (1832) ]i. 154 ; Gray, Gen. B. vol. iii. p. 519 (1849) ; 

 Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. Asiat. Soc. (1849) p. 249 ; Reich. Syn. Av. 

 Gallinee (1851) pi. ccix. figs. 1823-24 ; Jerd. Madr. Journ. vol. xii. 

 p. 3 ; Hutt. Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. vol. xvi. p. 785 ; Burgess, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. (1855) p. 30 ; Von Heugl.Syst. Uebers. Vog. N.O.- 

 Afr. (1855) p. 304; Hartl. Syst. Omith. W.-Afr. (1857) p. 205; 

 Adams, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1858) p. 502 ; Taylor, Ibis (1859) p. 50, 

 (1867) p. 67; Irby, Ibis (1861) p. 235; Jerd. B. Ind. vol. iii. 

 (1864) p. 502; Tristr. Proc. Zool. Soc. (1864) p. 449; Gould, 

 B. Asia, pt. ii. pi. 13; Adams, Ibis (1864) p. 27; Allen, Ibis 

 (1864) p. 240; Tristr. Ibis (1868) p. 211; Beavan, Ibis (1868) 

 p. 378; Blanf. Geol. & Zool. Abyss. (1870) p. 4i0 ; Shelley, Ibis 

 (1871) p. 153; id. B. Egypt (1872) p. 218; Lloyd, Ibis (1873) 

 p. 4 1 5 ; Hume, Str. Feath. (1873) vol. i. p. 225 ; Adams, Str. Feath. 

 (1873) vol. i. p. 392; Yon Heugl. Oruith. Nordost-Afr. Band ii. 

 p. 855 (1873); id. Journ. fur Omith. (1875) p. 57; Butl. Str. 

 Feath. (1875) vol. iii. p. 4; Fairb. Str. Feath. (1876) vol. iv. 

 p. 262. 



Pteroclurus exustus, Ball, Str. Feath. (1874) vol. ii. p. 426. 



Bar-titar, Bakt-titar, Kumar-tit, Hind. ; Kuhar, N.W. Prov. ; 

 Jam polanka, Tel. ; Kal-Kondari, Tarn. (Jerdon). Gutta in Egypt 

 (Adams) . 



Hab. N.E. Africa and Arabia (Heuglin) ; Egypt and Nubia 



(Shelley); Upper Egypt (Adams); Hindustan, Middle and Western 



Asia, Southern Europe, North Africa (Blyth) ; Abyssinia (Blan- 



ford); Senegal, Mus. Berl. (Hartlaub) ; Casamanze (Verreaux) ; 



Nubia and Abyssinia (Riippeli) ; Palestine (Tristram) ; India, gene- 



