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



specimens I have seen, the name trieinctus, given to this species by 

 Swainson, is by far the most appropriate one ; and it is to be regretted 

 that it cannot be employed. 



Temminck also refers to the present species the bird figured and 

 described by Sonnerat, who, he states, was the first to make it known 

 as La Gelinotte des Indes. In this determination I believe Tem- 

 minck to hate been mistaken, and that he confounded Sonnerat's 

 bird with the Pt. bicinctus of Temminck. The species figured by 

 Sonnerat has but two bands on the breast, a black and a white one ; 

 and I consider it to be the Pt. bicinctus, Temm., and have accord- 

 ingly referred it to that bird. 



The only habitats I can find for Pt. quadricinctus are Abyssinia 

 and Sennaar on the east coast, while Swainson gives West Africa 

 as the place whence his specimen came. It has never, so far as I am 

 aware, been found in India. The examples described by Temminck 

 were in the cabinet of M. de Breukelewaert at Amsterdam. 



Male. Spot on the forehead, covering the nostrils, and one over 

 each eye white. A broad black band crosses the forehead just in 

 front of the eyes. Top of head and occiput fulvous, streaked nar- 

 rowly with black. Throat yellowish white. Nape, sides of neck, 

 and breast uniform sandy buff. Across the lower part of the breast 

 are three bands, the first dark chestnut, the second white, and the 

 third black. Temminck says there is a fourth one, of white. I do 

 not perceive this in the specimens before me ; but I am inclined to 

 think individuals vary in the number of these bars. Underparts 

 black, narrowly barred with white. Back deep buff, barred with jet- 

 black. Wings fulvous, the shoulders uniform, not spotted. Wing- 

 coverts and secondaries crossed by a single black bar, margined on 

 both sides with white. The innermost secondaries have numerous 

 black bars, and no white ones. Tail and under-coverts deep buff, 

 barred with black. Bill red ; feet yellow. 



Total length 9^ inches, wing 7%, tail 3f , bill (along gape) f . 



Specimen described from the White Nile. 



Female. The entire top of head fulvous, streaked with black, and 

 the back of neck spotted with the same. Throat white. Breast 

 bright fulvous, without any bars, and the underparts barred with 

 white and narrow lines of brownish black. Feathers of back and 

 inner secondaries rufous, barred with black and margined with fulvous. 

 Wings and outer webs of outer secondaries pale buff, crossed by 

 several narrow jet-black bars. Inner webs of outer secondaries and 

 primaries brownish black. Tail and its under-coverts deep buff, 

 barred with black. Bill reddish horn-colour ; feet yellow. 



Total length 9^ inches, wing 7^, tail 3^, bill (along gape) f. 



13. Fterocles lichtensteini. 



Pterocles lichtensteini, Temm. Flanch. Col. (1825)no. 355, 361 

 Riipp. Neue Wirbelth. (1823-38) p. 114 ; Wagl. Syst. Av. (1827), 

 Pterocles, sp. 8 ; Less. Trait. Ornith. (1831) p. 516. sp. 8 ; Gray, 

 Gen. B. vol. hi. p. 518 (1849) partim ; Reich. Syn. Av. Gallin. 

 (1851) pi. ccix. figs. 1827-28; Heugl. Syst. Ubers. Vbg. Nord- 



