44 CLASS AVES. 



white; neck and chest, ashy-yellow, with a double 

 black and whitish chest-band. Hen^ with the bands 

 and forehead, dark spotted ; feathers, brown, red, and 

 whitish streaked. Inhabits South Africa. 



Crowned Sand Grous. Pterocles Coronatus, Licht. 

 Col. 339, and 40. 



Purplish-grey ; top of neck and ears, yellow ; fore- 

 head and orbits, white ; chin and nasal streak, black ; 

 crown, purplish-grey, surrounded by a blue streak ; 

 wing-coverts, yellow, black spotted ; tail, with black 

 band, and white tips. Nubia. 



Pterocles Quadricinctus, Tern, or 

 Oenas Bicinctus. Vieill. Gal. 220. 



Ash-yellow, black streaked ; forehead, three banded ; 

 chest-bands, four, chestnut and white, and black and 

 white. Hen, without the front or pectoral bands. 

 India. Length, nine and a half inches.* 



Lastly, the largest species 



Sharp-tailed Grous. Lath. Tetrao Phasianellus. 

 Gm. Edw. 117. 



Testaceous, varied with blackish ; chest, chesnut, 

 white spotted ; side of the neck and coverts with 

 round white spots ; tail, wedge-shaped ; side feathers, 

 white. The orbits of the males, very large. Cha. 

 Bonap. iij. 1. 19. 



Temminck, and all former authors, have placed this 

 bird with the true grous. 



* See Surmagur Grom, Lath. Hist. viii. 257. from India. The Gorto 

 Bruce's Trav. Co. 241 ; said only to have two toes, called the Gorto Grous 

 by Latham. 



