NOV 12 1 

 JOURNAL ^^^^^^^22^00^^ 



OF THE 



Bombay Natural History Society. 



Dec. 1913. Yol. XXII. No. 3. 



THE GAME BIEDS OF INDIA, BURMA AND CEYLON. 



» BY 



E. 0. Stuart Bakee, F.L.S., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 



Part XI. 



With Plate XL 



(^Continued from page 229 of Volume XXII.) 



Pterocles coronatus atratus (Hartert.) 



The Goronetted Sand-Grouse. 



Pterocles coronatus. — Lich Verz. Doubl.,p. 65, (1823) Hume ibid., 

 1872, p. 468; id. Str. Feath, 1, p. 224; "Wise iUd., iii, p. 267; 

 Hume ihid., p, 41 ; Wise, ihid., p, 230 ; Blanford, East Persia, ii, 

 p. 272; Hume, Str. Feath, vii, p. 161 ; Hume and Marshall, Game 

 Birds, 1, p. 57 ; Butler, Cat. Birds of Sind, etc., p. 53 ; Tufnell, 

 Str. Feath. ix., p. 200 ; Barnes, ibid., pp. 219, 458 , Lean, ibid., p. 

 296 ; Barnes. B. of Bombay, p. 209 ; id. Jour. B. N. H. Soc. v., p. 

 336 ; Ogilvie Grant, Cat. B. M. xxii, p. 23 ; Blanford Fauna of 

 B. I. Birds iv., p. 37 ; Oates Game Birds of India, i., p. 41 ; 

 Ogilvie-Grant, Game Birds, i., p. 18 ; Le Mess. Game Birds, p. 57, 



Pteroclis coronatus. — Sharpe, Hand List, p. 51 ; Oates, Cat. Eggs. 

 B. M. i., p. 51. 



Pterocles coronatus atratus. — Hartert Bulletin, B.O.U., February 

 1902. 



Vernacidar oiame. — Katinga. (S'm.). 



Adidt male. — Centre of forehead white, a broad patch of black on 



either side carried round the base of the bill and down the centre of 



the throat as a broad streak ; crown dull vinous grej^ or vinous buff, 



surrounded by a pure French grey which forms a broad supercilium 



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