DOUBLE-GIRDED PTEROCLES. 
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and' are so eager as to suffer the sportsman to cap- 
ture them with facility. Their food consists of 
the seeds of various kinds of Astragalus: the female 
lays four or five eggs, which are white, spotted 
with brown ; they are deposited in a nest placed 
amongst thick briars. 
DOUBLE-GIRDED PTEROCLES. 
(Pterocles bicinetus.) 
'Px.Jronte nigra, macula supra oculos alba, corpore supra cinereo- 
Jiisco maculis albis triangularibus variegato ; collo pectoreque 
cinereo-Jiavis, cingulo pectoris duplici albo nigroque, corpore 
subtus albo et Jusco striata. (Femina absque cingulis et Jrontis 
macida nigra, pennis Juscis, rivfo et albescente-Jlavo striatis.) 
Pterocles with the forehead black, a spot above the eyes white ; 
the body above cinereous-brown, variegated with triangular 
white spots ; the throat and breast cinereous-yellow, the latter 
with a double belt of black and white 5 the body beneath stri- 
ated with white and fuscous. Female without the belt and 
the black spot on the forehead j the quills brown, striated 
with rufous and whitish-yellow. 
Pterocles bicinetus. Temm. Gall. Ind. 713. 
Ganga bibande. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 3, p. 247. 
A NEW species described by Temminck : it is in 
length rather above ten inches : the male has a 
small spot of white at the base of the beak, and a 
broad band of black extending across the forehead 
from one eye to the other ; this is accompanied 
above the eyes with two broad lateral spots of a 
