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buff; feathers of the first with a central streak of black ; those of the 

 other parts barred irregularly with the same colour. Rest of under- 

 parts buffy white, graduating into light buff upon the flanks and 

 lower tail-coverts, and all, except the last-named, barred narrowly 

 with black. Upper parts buff, barred irregularly with narrow lines 

 of black, and some of the scapulars tipped with greyish purple as 

 in the male. Primaries same as the male. Median pair of rectrices 

 slightly elongated beyond the rest, reddish-buff, barred narrowly 

 with black, and with black tips ; the lateral feathers blackish brown, 

 with irregular reddish-buff bars on the outer webs, and with yellowish- 

 white tips. On the inner webs the buff bars are very faintly 

 indicated, and on some of the feathers they are obsolete. Bill 

 horn-brown. 



Total length 9|- inches, wing &|, tail 4^, bill along gape |-. 



10. Pterocles fasciatus. 



Tringa fascia ta, Scop. Delic. Faun, et Flor. Insubr. vol. ii. p. 92 

 (1786). 



Indian Grous, Lath. Gen. Syn. (1783) p. 752; id. Gen. Hist. 

 B. vol. viii. (1823) p. 260. 



Tetrao indicus, Gmel. Syst. Nat. (1788) vol. i. p. 755 ; Bon- 

 nat. Ency. Me'th. (1790) torn. i. p. 201. 



Perdix indica, Lath. Ind. Orn. vol. ii. p. 650, sp. 23 (1790). 



(Enas indicus, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. (1817) p. 422. 



Pterocles quadricinctus (necTemm.), Less. Trait. Ornith. (1831), 

 p. 526, sp. 3 ; Sykes, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1832) p. 155 ; Burgess, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. (1855) p. 30. 



Pterocles fasciatus, Gray, Gen. B. vol. iii. p. 518; Blyth, Cat. 

 Birds Mus. Asiat. Soc. (1849) p. 249 ; Jerd. Ind. Ornith. pis. 10, 

 36; Reich. Syn. Av. Gallin. (1851) pi. ccviii. figs. 1815-16; 

 Adams, Proc, Zool. Soc. (1868) p. 502 ; Jerd. B. Ind. vol. iii. p. 

 498 (1864) ; Gould, B. Asia, pt. ii. pi. 14 ; Beavan, Ibis (1868) p. 

 378 ; Lloyd, Ibis (1873) p. 415 ; Adams, Str. Feath. (1873) vol. i. 

 p. 391 ; Ball, Str. Feath. (1873) vol. ii. p. 426 ; Fairb. Str. Feath. 

 (1876) vol. iv. p. 262 ; Wise, Str. Feath. (1876) vol. iv. p. 230 ; 

 Butler, Str. Feath. (1877) vol. v. p. 231. 



Handeri in the south ; Boot-bur in the north-west ; Sunda polanka 

 Tel. (Jerdon). 



Hab. India generally, except Malabar and Lower Bengal (Jerdon); 

 Dukhan (Sykes) ; Punjab (Adams); Deccan (Burgess) ; Khandesh 

 ( Wise) ; Morar, near Gwalior, Umballah (Beavan) ; Kattiawar 

 (Lloyd) ; Hindustan generally (Blyth) ; Sambhur lake (Adams) ; 

 Chota Nagpur (Ball); Ahmednagar district, Kandalia (Fair- 

 bank) . 



Jerdon (I. c.) states that this species is found over the greater part 

 of India, but not in Malabar and Lower Bengal, and is not abundant 

 anywhere. He had seen it in the Carnatic, the Deccan, and in 

 Central India ; and Adams records it as pretty common in the 

 jungles around the base of the Sewalik range in the Puujaub. Un- 

 like other Sand-Grouse, it frequents thickets, and chiefly bushy and 



