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the male and female rather greater than Hume does as regards 

 wing measurements. The tarsus and bill average respectively -90 " 

 (22-8mm.) and -43" (10-8mm.) respectively. 



So far we have no description either of the young bird or of the 

 nestling. 



Distribution. — The Spotted Sand-Grouse (Pteroclurus senegallus) 

 extends from Algeria, where, Whittaker says, it is very common, 

 throughout the whole of Northern Africa, parts of the Sahara, 

 North and South Nubia and Egypt and thence through Arabia, 

 Palestine, Mesopotamia, Persia, Afghanistan, Baluchistan, and into 

 N. W. India. 



Within our limits Blanford thus defines their habitat. " Common 

 in Sind west of the Indus, rare to the Eastward, but recorded from 

 the neighbourhood of the Runn of Cutch, including Kathiawar, and 

 from Jamboghora, West of Ahmedabad ; also from Poharan between 

 Jeysulmere and Jodhpore and from Shapur district in the Punjab. 

 Mhow is given as a locality in the British Museum Catalogue for 

 a specimen received from Col. Swinhoe, but in error the specimen 

 thus marked is really from Pirchoki, below the Bolan Pass." As 

 regards Kathiawar, Col. L. L. Fenton tells me that he has only seen 

 a very few of these birds and that only in the cold weather in the 

 North-East of the Provinces. He has met with them North of 

 the Tabli Road Station in the Wadhwan-Ahmedabad Railway, 

 though they were not common. Harrington Bulkley writing to the 

 Journal from Kharaghora says that " they are found in numbers all 

 along the Runn, 100 miles North of this." 



To the West there appear to be no records beyond those of Blan- 

 ford except a single bird reported to me as shot near Nagar in 

 •Jodhpore. 



The greater number of the birds which visit India appear to be 

 migrants from across the border during the cold weather, but there 

 is no doubt that a considerable number remain all the year round. 

 Bulkley in commenting on Barnes' note to the effect that " a few 

 apparently remain to breed in Sind," writes " a fair number of 

 them remain throughout the year as I have seen them in the hot 

 weather and in the monsoon in Guzerat." 



In the Trans-Indus country, Sind and the Punjab these Gmuse 

 are very numerous in the cold weather and a considerable number 

 pre also found in between the Indus and the Jhelum and Chenab. 

 Further South they are numerous in Cutch and Guzerat and in the 

 West of the desert country of Jusalmir and Mallani. East of this 

 they are only found as stragglers in the winter months. 



AS regards their habits there is nothing on record to add 

 to what Hume has already noted as follows : " Denizens of 

 the desert as their plumage shews them to be at the first 

 glance, they never advance far into the cultivation, to the imme- 



