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ash ; wing-coverts, tipped with shining-ash ; chest, 

 with a chesnut- white band; belly, purple-ash. Female, 

 pale-reddish ; neck and chest, brown streaked ; body, 

 brown, and rufous banded. The Tetrao Namaqua. 

 Lath. Cape of Good Hope. 



The following species have simply pointed tails. 



Sand Grous. Lath. Tet. Arenarius. Palb. Nov. 

 Coni. Petrop. XIX. pi. 8. or Pterocles Arenarius. 

 Col. 52 and 53. the same as Perdix Arragonica, 

 Lath. 



Whitish testaceous, with oval yellowish spots; jugular, 

 lunule black ; collar, belly, and vent, black ; quills, 

 black and grey banded, white tipped. Found in Asia. 

 South Europe, and Barbary. 



The Tetrao Orientalis Suhindactylus of Has- 

 selquist. 



Indian Grous. Lath. Pterocles Lidhfenstenii. Tern. 

 Col. 355, and 361. The male, 355, is at least nearly 

 allied to Tetrad Indicus, Lath, from Sonnerat, ij. t. 

 96. 



Banded with black; above, Isabella; beneath, whitish; 

 chest, brown ; central, pectoral, and frontal band, 

 black; head, brown. Female, without any chest 

 band. Nubia. Length, nine to ten inches. The Pt. 

 Bicinctus. Licht. Cat. 



Double-banded Grous. Lath. IL Pterocles Bicinc- 

 tus. Tem. Gal. of Licht. not Lath. 



Ash-brown, with triangular white spots ; beneath, 

 white, brown streaked ; forehead, black ; eye-spot, 



