JOURNAL 



OF THE 



Bombay Natural History Society. 



:Nov. 1914. Vol. XXIII. No. 2. 



THE GAME BIEDS OF INDIA, BURMA AND CEYLON. 



BY 



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



Part XIV. 



With Plates XIV and XV. 



Pteroclurus senegallus. 



The Spotted Sand-Grouse. ' 



Tetrao senegallus. — Linn. Mantissa, p. 526 (1867-71). 



Pterocles senegallus. — Shelley, B. Egypt, p. 220 (1872) ; Jerdon, 

 B.I. iii, p. 504'; Hiime, Str. Feath. i, p. 221 ; id, ibid, 11, p. 331 

 id, ibid, iv, p. 4; Butler, ibid, iv, id; ibid, p. 508; Blanford, E 

 Persia, ii, p. 271 ; Hnme, Str. Feath. v, p. 60 ; Butler, ibid, p. 222 

 Hume, ibid, vii, p. 161 ; Hume, Cat. No. 801 ; Butler, Oat., Bird 

 Sind, p. 53 ; Hume and Marshall, Game B. i, p. 53 ; Doig, Str 

 Feath. viii, p. 371 ; Tufnell, Str. Feath. ix, p. 200; Barnes, B 

 of Bom., p. 297; Oates, Hume's Nests and Eggs, 2nd Edit., iii, p 

 366;Bulkley, Jour. B. N. H. S. xiii, p. 704 ; Nicol. Cumming 

 ibid, xvi, p. 641. 



Pterocles senegalensis. — Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxiv, p. 303. 



Pterocles guttatus. — Licht, Verz. Doubl., p. 64. 



Pteroclurus senegallus. — Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. M., xxii, p. 14 ; 

 Blanford, Avifauna, Ind., iv., p. 61 ; Ogilvie-Grant, Game B. i, p. 

 14 ; Oates, Game B. i., p. 31. 



Pteroclidurus senegallus. — Sharpe, Hand B. i, p. 50. 

 . Vernacular names. — Nango Katingo, Gutu (^Sind). 



Description. — Adult tnale — Crown of head and whole upper 

 plumage to tail a soft isabelline-grey or isahelline, the tail coverts 

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