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greater coverts yellow on the terminal third. Some of the feathers 

 also have a small white spot just beneath the dark line on the tip. 

 Primaries brownish black ; the inner ones tipped with white, broadest 

 on the inner web. Central rectrices much lengthened beyond the 

 rest, deep buff, indistinctly mottled with dark brown near the base, 

 with an irregular scalloped subterminal black bar, then buffy white, 

 and the lengthened narrow apical portion black. Lateral ones with 

 the inner webs dark rufous brown ; outer ones buff, barred with 

 blackish brown, a subterminal black bar, and white tips. Under 

 tail-coverts brownish black, with white tips. Thighs chestnut, tarsi 

 covered in front with short buffy- white feathers. 



Total length 9f inches, wings 7, tail 3|, bill along gape f . 



Female. Top of head buff, darkest in the centre, each feather with 

 a central line of black. Throat and loral space pale orange-yellow. 

 Sides and back of neck and breast bright buff, each feather with a 

 wedge-shaped central black line, the widest part being at the tip, 

 and also with another bkck bar crossing it in the centre. The fea- 

 thers on the lower part of the breast are tipped with black, margined 

 on the upperside with white, forming an irregular band across, 

 below which there is an unspotted light buff space. Flanks, abdomen, 

 thighs, and vent black, narrowly barred with rufous. Upper parts 

 bright buff, barred narrowly with jet-black. Wing-coverts like the 

 back, the lesser ones tipped with blackish chestnut, the greater ones 

 broadly tipped with light yellow, forming a broad band on lower side 

 of the wing when closed. Secondaries light buff, barred with black, 

 the tips of outer webs of some of the outer secondaries light yellow. 

 Primaries chocolate-brown, broadly tipped on inner webs with white. 

 Upper tail-coverts like the back. Median pair of rectrices extended 

 beyond the rest, attenuated for their terminal third, which is brownish 

 black, the remaining portion being bright buff, barred narrowly with 

 black ; lateral feathers dark brown on inner webs, bright buff on 

 outer, with numerous bars of black, and tips white. Under tail- 

 coverts yellowish white, barred with black. Bill brownish black. 



Total length llf inches, wing 7, tail to end of central rectrices 

 4f, bill along gape f . 



8. Pterocles alchata. 



The Little Pin-tailed Grouse, Edw. Glean, p. 84, pi. 249 (1758). 



Tetrao alchata, Linn. Syst. Nat. (1776) vol. i. p. 27b" ; Gmel. 

 Syst. Nat. (1788) vol. i. p. 754 ; Lath. lnd. Orn. vol. ii. p. 641 

 (1790); Bonnat. Ency. Me'th. (1790) torn. ii. p. 203, pi. 92. 

 tig. 3. 



Pin-tailed Grous, Lath. Gen. Syn. (1783) vol. ii. pt. 2nd, 

 p. 748. 



Pterocles setarius, Temni. Pig. et Gallin. vol. iii. pp. 256, 714 

 (1815); id. Mon. Ornith. vol.ii.p. 478(1820), vol.iv.p. 330 ; Wagl. 

 Syst. Av. (1829) Pterocles, sp. 6; Less. Trait. Ornith. (1831) p. 

 516. sp. 6 ; Parker, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1864) p. 258; Taczanow. Jour, 

 fiir Ornith. (1870) p. 51. 



(Enascata, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. vol. xii. p. 418 (1817). 



