JOURNAL 



OF THE 



Bombay Natural History Society. 



March 1914. Vol. XXII. No. 4. 



THE GAME BIRDS OF INDIA, BURMA AND CEYLON. 



BY 



E. C. Stuart Baker, F.L.S., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 



Part XII. 



With Plate XII. 



(Contimiecl from iDcifje ^33 of Volume XXII.) 



Pterocles lichtensteini. 



The Close-barred Sand-Grouse. 



Pterocles lichtensteini. — Temm., PI. Col. Vol. v., pis. 25, 26 

 (1825); Blyth, J. As. Soc. Beng. xxiv, p. 304; Hume, Str 

 Feath. i, p. 219; Wise, ibid, iv, p. 230; Hume, ibid, vii, p 

 162; id. Cat. No. 800 bis ; Hume and Marshall, Gam e-B. i, p 

 66; Butler, Cat. B. of Sind, etc., p. 52 ; Tufnell, Str. Feath. ix 

 p. 202; Barnes, B. of Bombay, p. 296; Newnham, Jour. B. N 

 H. Soc. iv, p. 53 ; Laurie, ibid, p. 94 ; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. M 

 xxii, p. 29 ; Oates, Game-B. Ind. i, p. 51 ; Ogilvie-Grant, Gam-e 

 Birds i, p. 20 ; Le Mess, Game B, p. 57. Blanford, Fauna India, 

 iv, p. 57. 



Pteroclis Uchensteini. — Sharpe, Hand-list I, p. 51. 



Vernacidar names. — None recorded. 



Adidt male.— The forehead with three bars of black and white 

 as in fasciatus, but the front white bar runs up and back into the 

 black, and the black in the same way into the posterior white 

 band, so that the two front bands are more or less V shaped, 

 whilst the third band is generally interrupted in the middle ; this 

 is also produced backwards as a broad, short supercilium, with a 

 black eyebrow patch in the centre. The blackish band is also 

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