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Vol. XVII. BOMBAY. No- 3. 



A NOTE ON 

 PODOCES PLESKE1, Zarudny. 



By 

 R. Bowdler Sharpe, LL.D., etc., 

 Assistant Keeper, Department of Zoology, British Museum. 

 (With a Plate.) 

 {Read before the Bombay Natural History Society on 28th June 1906.) 

 Through the kindness of the officers of the Bombay Natural 

 History Society, I have just received a specimen of a very rare bird 

 which was not represented in the British Museum. It is an example 

 of Podoces pleskei, a species of Desert-Chough, described by Mr. 

 Zarudny, the well-known Russian traveller, in the " Annuaire " of the 

 St. Petersburg Museum, 1896, pp. xii — xviii. 



In the British Museum are the types of three species of the genus 

 Podoces, viz., P. biddulphi, P. hendersoni and P. humilis, all of them 

 described by Mr. Allan Hume. Of the other species, P. panderi, we 

 have now seven specimens. 



Having, therefore, representatives of all the known species before 

 me, I am able to modify my " key to the species " of Podoces given bj 

 me in the " Catalogue of Birds " (Vol. Ill, p. 150) as follows : — 



