ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA. 201 



'.' While at Vitakri, in Beluchistan, I procured several speci- 

 mens of this Sand-Grouse, of which the following are the 

 measurements and description : — 



" Measurements of a male specimen : — Length, 11*5 ; wing, 

 7*0 ; tail, 3'5 ; tarsus, nearly 1 inch. 



" Legs feathered to base of tarsus ; toes bare, armed with 

 largish scuta ; hind toe minute and raised. 



" Tail graduated, all feathers, except the two central, tipped 

 white. 



rt Primaries brown, with inner edges light ; quills whitish ; 

 and general coloration not unlike that of arenarius above, but 

 neither sex has any massed black on the lower parts. 



" Male. — Head. — Black stripe on each side of bill and under 

 chin ; occiput brownish grey, bordered by a line of light grey 

 extending from the base of the bill round the eye and meeting 

 on the nape ; beneath this a broad band of yellow ; above 

 marbled grey and yellowish brown, beneath unspotted grey, 

 inclining to fulvous on the abdomen. 



" Female. — Upper head lighter than in the male, minutely 

 striated with black, and bounded by a band of yellow from 

 chin and throat round nape of neck ; upper parts pale brown, 

 minutely banded with black; breast light grey, banded 

 darker ; abdomen white, banded (in some specimens spotted) 

 darker. 



" The specimens, from which the description is taken, were 

 killed in December." 



R. H. C. TUFNELL, M.S.O. 



The Painted Sand-Grouse. (Vol. I., pp. 59, et seq.) — 



"As regards the occurrence of this bird in the Mysore 

 province I can speak, from experience, of its being anything 

 but rare on the wooded islands of the Cauvery, near 

 Seringapatam. The largest bag I can remember making in 

 that part of the country was thirteen birds killed near 

 French Rocks on 17th October 1878, by Major St. John and 

 myself. They breed in the same place." 



R. H. C. Tufnell, m.s.c. 



tl The country in which I have found these most abundant 

 consists of low, flat-topped hills, such as are found in the 

 Nerbudda valley, south of Mhow. These hill-tops have patches 

 of black soil on them, and are covered with thin tree jungle. This 

 year, in Khandesh, I have found these birds common on the 

 same sort of ground, and have noticed them in the evening on 



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