THE GAME BIRDS OF INDIA, BURMA AND CEYLON'. 3 



according to Sharpe and Ogilvie Grant 10 species, of which four 

 are found in India. Of these, one is entirely resident, but the 

 other three are, to some extent, migratory, although they breed 

 either close to, or actually within, the borders of the Indian 

 Continent. 



The difference between Fterocles and Pteroclurus are hardlj* 

 generic, consisting, as already shewn, only in the elongation of the 

 tail feathers in the latter ; the differerices are, in fact, identical 

 with those between Sphenocercus splieniirus and tSphenocercus 

 apicaudus amongst the Pigeons, thoiigh these two latter have not 

 yet been split into two genera. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



a. Abdomen black throughout arenarius, d , $ . 



h. Abdomen banded black and white 



a' Two dark pectoral bands 



a" No band across hind neck . . . fasciatus, s • 



b'' Band across hind neck lichensteini, ^ . 



b' No dark pectoral bands 



c" Chin unspotted. tarsus 



spotted or barred fasciatus, $ . 



d" Chin spotted, no spots or 



bars on tarsus lichensteini, $ . 



c. Abdomen unspotted buff in male, spotted 



buff in female coronatus, S , 9 ■ 



Pteeocles arenarius. 



The Lan/e, Imperial, or Blach-hellied Sand-Grouse. 



Sand-Grouse. — Lath. Gen. Syn. ii, p. 751 (1783). 



Tetrao arenarius. — Pallas, Nov. Com. Petrop. xix, p. 418 C1775). 



Fterocles arenarius. — Temminck, Man. d'Orn, p. 300 (1815); 

 Graj-, list B. iii, p. 49 ; Blyth, Cat. B. As. Soc. Mus., p. 249 ; 

 •Jerdon, B. of In., iii, p. 496 ; Hume, Str. Feath. i., p. 219 ; Adam, 

 ibid, p. 391 ; Dresser, B. of Europe, vii, p. 61 ; James, Str. Feath. 

 iii, p. 418; Hume, Str. Feath. iv., p. 4; Butler, ibid, iv, p. 4; 

 Wise, iUd, p. 230; Blanford, E. Persia, ii, p. 271 ; Butler, Str. 

 Feath. v., p. 222; Hume and Marsh. Game B., i, p. 47; Hume, 

 Str, Feath. vii, p. 161 ; Butler, ihidj. p. 186 ; Marshall, ihid, viii, 

 p. 492 ; Butler, Cat. B., Sind, p. 52 ; Hume, Cat. No. 799 ; 

 Tufnell, Str. Feath. ix, p. 200 ; Barnes, ihid, pp. 219, 458; Eeid, 

 ihid, X, p. 61; Biddulph, ihid, p. 275; Barnes, Birds Bom., 

 p. 294 ; ihid, Journ. Bom. N. H. Soc. v., p. 333 ; Rattray, ihid, 

 xii, p. 345 ; C. G. Nurse, ihid, xiv., p. 388 ; S. E. Marshall, ibid, xv., 

 p. 353 ; Nicol. Gumming, ihid, xvii, p. 691 ; Ogilvie Grant, Cat. 

 B. M. xxii, p. 18; Oates, Game B. Ind., i, p. 36; Indian Field, 

 21st Feb., 1907; Le Mess., Land and Water B. of Ind., p. 56. 



