42 CLASS AVES, 



of the male is black. It is found in the South of 

 France, and all round the Mediterranean.* 



To these may be added, the species with two long linear 

 tail-feathers. 



Senegal Grous. Tetrao Senegalus, Lath, or 

 Pterocles Guttatus. Tern. Enl. 130, and the female, 

 PI. Col. 345. 



Bill, strong, cylindrical ; quills, isabella, with black 

 shafts ; beneath, white, without any chest-band ; 

 throat, orange ; belly, middle, black, Male, isabella ; 

 wing-coverts, brown, yellow tipt. Females, testa- 

 ceous ; chest and upper parts, black spotted. India, 

 Egypt, and Coast of Barbary. 



The female is the Lyhian Grous. Lath. Hist. t. 128. 



Singed Grous. Pterocles Eccustus. Tem. Col. 354. 

 and 360. 



Bill, slender, attenuated ; quills, brown, white tipt ; 

 chest-band, black ; throat and coverts, yellow. Male, 

 isabella; belly, brown, as if scorched, black in the 

 middle. Female, ferrugineous- white ; back, with 

 crowded, arched, brown bands. The Pterocles Sene- 

 galensis of Lichtenstein. Egypt, Eastern Africa, and 

 India. 



The Namaqua Grous, Lath. Bahtah Grous, of 

 Latham, Hist. Pterocles Tachypcetes. Tem. Gal- 

 lin 715. 



Ashy-brown ; throat, yellowish ; crown and neck, 



* Found also in Arabia and India ; the female with a white throat, and 

 a black half-collar, wing-coverts not spotted, is the Tetrao Caudacuta of 

 Gmelin, and the Pterocles Setanus of Temminck,and Oenas Cata, Vieil. 



