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streak about an inch long- running" down the front of the throat, 

 black ; the lores and a narrow border to the black at the base 

 of the lower mandible, white; rest of the throat, ear coverts, and 

 a broad collar on the sides and round the back of the neck, brigdit 

 buffy yellow or orang-e buff ; crown and occiput, a somewhat ru- 

 fous fawn or dove color, with a slight cinnamon ting-e ; base of 

 the neck all round, breast, and abdomen, pale isabelline, with a 

 slig-ht greyish ting-e on the neck ; lower tail coverts, sides, axil- 

 laries and the greater portion of the wing lining almost pure 

 white ; the smaller coverts along the carpal joint faintly tinged 

 isabelline and with slightly darker shafts. The whole back, rump, 

 and upper tail coverts isabelline, all the feathers margined and 

 tipped with brownish grey so as to produce the effect of the ends 

 of the feathers being all dirty. The central tail feathers greyish 

 isabelline, dark shafted ; the laterals similar, tipped with fulvous 

 white, and with a more or less well marked grey brown spot or 

 imperfect transverse bar just above the tipping. The primaries 

 and their greater coverts dull grey brown, with brownish white 

 shafts ; all but the earlier primaries tipped, and broadly mar- 

 gined towards the tips on the inner webs, with isabelline ; the 

 scapulars and the median coverts with greyish vinaceous bases, 

 dark brown shafts except just at the tips, isabelline tips and a 

 blackish grey band running down the shaft from some little dis- 

 tance above the isabelline tips, and dividing when it meets 

 ■them, and extending on either web so as to bound these tippings 

 and separate them from the vinaceous color of the basal portions 

 of the feathers ; the dingy margins to the rump and back 

 feathers, produce a somewhat mottled appearance, which is still 

 moi'e conspicuous on the scapulars, wing coverts, &c., where grey- 

 ish black, yellowish isabelline, and greyish vinaceous are all min- 

 gled in patches ; the whole of the visible portion of the greater 

 secondary coverts are isabelline, and the secondaries themselves 

 are plain hair brown. 



I did not as already mentioned procure the female which 

 Mr. Gould thus describes — " The female has the crown, very pale 

 cinnamon, spotted with black ; all the upper surface, buff, with 

 numerous crescentic broken bands of brownish black ; scapularies, 

 largely blotched with black ; throat and cheeks, yellowish buff ; 

 under surface, sandy buff; the throat and breast marked with 

 crescentic bands like the upper surface, wings similar to, but 

 paler than those of the male.^' 



802— Pterocles exustus, Tem. 



Pretty common everywhere, but not apparently in any thing, 

 like such numbers as P. alchata or P. senegallus. 



