JOURNAL 



OF THE 



Bombay Natural History Society. 



June 1914. Vol. XXIII. No. 1. 



THE GAME BIRDS OP INDIA,, BURMA AND CEYLON. 



BY 



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



Part XIII. 



With Plate XIII. 



(Continued from page 657 of Volume XXII.) 



Genus PTJEBOCLUBUS. 



The Genus Pteroclurus is, as I have ah-eady said, scarcely worthy 

 of divisio^i from Pterocles, the only difference being that the 

 central tail feathers of the former genus are produced in long 

 filaments beyond the other rectrices, whilst those of the latter are 

 normal. 



There are altogether four species in this genus of which the 

 first, P. alchata, is divided into two sub-species. Three species 

 are found in India, of which one, exustus, is a permanent resident, 

 one, alchata is, practically, if not wholly, migratory, and the third, 

 senegaUus very rarely breeds within Indian limits. 



Key to the Species. 



A. Lower plumage from breast pure white ... alchata. 



B. Lower plumage marked with black. 



a\ Middle of abdomen barred black and 



rufous ... ... ... ... exustus. 5 



&\ Middle of abdomen black. 



a^. Black gorget across breast ... exustus. ^ 



V. No black gorget across breast ... senegaUus. 



