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rounded, the first primary being equal to the 5th or 6th; the tarsus 
is very powerful and armed with a short blunt spur in the male. 
Key TO SUB-SPECIES, 
A.—Darker “FS ‘ ah .. Alectoris greca chukar, 
B.—Paler .. ee me sts .. Alectoris greca pallescens. 
ALECTORIS GRECA CHUKAR, 
The Indian Chukor. 
Tetrao kakelik—Falk, Beitr. zur. topogr, Kennt, Russ. Rae iis 
p- 390 (1786), (Russian Turkestan). 
Perdix kakelik—Lath., Gen. Syn. Suppl., IL, p. 282. (1802) : id., 
Gen. Hist., VIII., p. 290 (1823). 
Perdix chukar—Gray, Ill. Ind. Zool., I., pl. 54 (1830-32), (India) ;. 
Gould, Cent. Him. B., pl. 71 (1882). 
Chakura pugnax—Hodgs., Madr. Jour., 1837, p. 505. 
Caccabis chukar—Gray, List of Birds, pt. 3, Gall., p. 36 (1844); id., 
Cat. Hods. ed., I., p. 127 (1846); Adams, Pp. Z. S., 1858, p. Boz 
(W. Himalayas “and Punjab); Irby, Ibis, 1861, p. 236 (Kumaon) ; 
Jerdon, B. of L., TIL, p. 564 (1863); Tytler, ibid, 1868, p. 203. 
(Mussoorie) ; Pelzeln, ibid. p. 321 (Koteghur); Beavan, ibid, p. 384 
(Simla); Brooks, ibid. 1869, p. 60 (Almorah) ; Hume, Nest and Eggs, 
p-589 (1873); id., Str. Feath., I., p. 226, 1873 (Sindh); Cock. and Marsh., 
ibid. p. 358 (Murree): Ball, ahi: IIT., p. 208 (1875), (Suliman Hills) : : 
Butler, Cat. B. Sind., p. B4 (1879); Hume and Marsh., Game-B. IL., p 
34 (1879); Scully, Str. Feath. VIIL., pp. 348, 366, 367 (1879), (Nepal);. 
Barnes, ibid. IX., pp. 219, 458 (1880), (Chaman); Biddulph, ibid, p. 
358 (Gilgit); Wardlaw-Ram., Ibis, 1880, p. 70 (Kurram Valley) ; 
Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 93 (Gilgit); Scully, Str. Feath., X., p. 139: 
(1881), (Gilgit) ; Marshall, Ibis, 1884, p. 423 (Chamba): St. John, 
Ibis, 1899, p..175 (Quetta); Oates’ ed., Hume’s Nests and Eggs, IIL, 
p. 431 (1890); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. M., XXII, p. 113 (1893);. 
id., Game-B., L, p. 91 (1895); Oates’ Game-B., L., p. 179 (1898) ; 
Blanf., Avifauna, B.L., IV., p. 131 (1898); Davidson, This, 1898, p. 39 
(Kashmir and Sind); Marsh. J. B. N. H.8., XV., p. 353 (Quetta) ~ 
Fulton, ibid, XVI., p. 61 (1904), (Chitral) ; Rattray, ibid, XVI., p. 
663, Murree ;. Whitehead, Ibis, 1908, p. 269 (Kohat) ;id., J.B. N. H.S., 
XX., p. 966 (1911), (Kurram); Meinertzhagen, ibid, XXIII., p. 363 
(1914), (Quetta); Whistler, Ibis, 1916, p. 99 (Jhelum) ; Jones, J. B. N. 
H.S., XXVI., p. 619 (1919), (Simla). 
Alectoris greca—Meinertzhagen, Ibis, 1920, p. 186 (Quetta). 
Alectoris greca chukar—Hartert, Nov. Zool., XXIV., p. 280 (1917). 
Vernacular Names.—Chukar (Hind.)}; Kabk. (P.); Kau-kau, 
(Kashmir) ; Chukru (Chamba); Zarkar (Pushtu). 
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