18/6.] MR. D. G. ELLIOT ON THE PTEROCLID.E. 257 



back, breast, and shoulders of the wing uniform sandy buff, with a 



b n7 /y, SC - L ° Wer P ^ ° f breaSt Cr ° SSed b ? two ^athe; broad 

 band, the upper one pure white, the lower jet-black. Rest of under- 

 pars barred narrowly with huffy white and brownish black. Feathers 



InZ 1 m u " S - u arr f d With » re - vish black > those °* the rump 

 ESriSt y Zf "S* Greater wi »g-overts and secondaries 

 brownish grey with a white spot at the tip of each feather Pri- 

 maries ; rutous-brown, all but the first two tipped with white. Tail 



b^^iKivjttyX: 5 ' ,ight buff ' barred with b — ^ 



Total length 9| inches, wing 6f . tail Sfc bill (along gape) 1. 



Another, younger male specimen differs" in having a narroVblack 

 hue over each eye between it and the white mark, and To bv 

 having the back and inner secondaries deep rufous,! rregularly barrel 

 with back the wing-feathers tipped with buffy white g u er se on 



wS. V t°ut b T"' hke u the P rimaHes » s °™ tipped on outer web 

 with hght buff, others with a subterminal bar of the same coloT 



wWtef Wlu g- C0 ^rts are blackish brown tipped with yellowish 



Female. Head back, neck, and breast buff, irregularly barred 

 hr t br ° W " lsh bla , ck ' and ^Pped with bnffy white on § the back an 1 

 breast. No band across the breast. Flanks, abdomen, and vent 



anr r td"sl 1 W b„ff% a h ad f bl ^ k • Wi "? irre S uW1 * '-red 'with bla 



late brow 1 t5i 5 I * WjP WMtC ; P limaries choc °- 



ate-browti Tail and its coverts reddish buff, barred with black and 



tipped with ulvous. Bill reddish, tip black ; feet yellowish 

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

 12. Pterocles quadricinctus. 



vv%T l 7U qu t% in l tus : T r m ; Pig - et Gallin - ( 1815 ) «*• a- 



pp. 252, 713 j Wagl. Syst. Av. (1827), Pterocles, sp. 3; Strickl 

 Proc Zool. Soc. (1850) p. 220 ; id. Ann. & Mag. Nat Hist ?nd str 

 vol. ix. p. 347 ; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. Vdg. N.of-Afr (1855)0 304 

 Hartl. Syst. Ornith. W.-Afr. (1857) p "05 } P ' " 



^CEnas 6icinctus, Vieill. (nee Temw.) Gal.* Ois. pi. 220, nee text 



Pterocles tricinctus, Swains. Birds W. Afr. (J 862) vol ii D l 23 • 

 Von Heugl. Ornith. Nordost-Afr. (1873) Band ii p. 867 ' 



Hab. Sennaar, Abyssinia (Jleuglin) ; West Africa (Strickland 

 Some confusion has been created in the synonymy of th s speSs 



(a'name'l^b? \f ^ '* ?!* ' ^^ L °^ ' T*3Z 

 heTxtlJT y Temmu "; k t0 q u »te a different species\ while in 



bird ^r Z C °T Ctl l deSCrib6d the true **'««*« and not the 

 bird represented in his plate. Although Vieillot's figure only shows 



CoTori'S • ^nr" r C '""J' yCt Te f minck aSSertS ' ^ the blanch" 

 Co oriees (genre Ganga, footnote), that it is his quadricinctus 

 and as it is natura to suppose he knew his own specieswhen he saw 

 it I have taken his determination as the correct one, moTe e peeiallv 

 well defi 6 ".T $ Cen able t0 find a s P ecimen of P ^roZ 7th four 



Pro 7n ^ aCr ° S 1 V hebreaSt - S ° faras l ca »J^ge fronfh 

 I'roc. Zool. Soc— 1878, No. XVII. i; 



