INDIAN PTEROCLES. 
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Le Vaillant discovered this species in the country 
of the Namaquois, on the borders of the great river : 
it appears to be partial to the sandy portion of the 
country, but in the vicinity of water : it lives in 
society, the old and young together, till the com- 
mencement of the season of courtship, when the 
young divide, and seek a proper situation to per- 
form the process of incubation. 
INDIAN PTEROCLES. 
(Pterocles quadricinctus.) 
Pt. Jronte trifasciata, corpore supra drier eo-flavot nigro strialo, 
dngulis pectoris quatuor, castaneo, alboy nigro, alboque. (Fe- 
mina absque Jascia frontis, cingulisque pectoris) 
Pterocles with the forehead with three fasciae ; the body above 
cinereous-yellow, striated with black j the breast with four 
belts, chesnut, white, black, and white. Female without the 
fasciae on the forehead, or the belts on the breast. 
Pterocles quadricinctus. Temm. Gall. Ind. 713. 
Tetrao Indicus. Gmel. Syst. Nat, 1. 755. 
Perdix Indica. Lath. Ind. Orn, 2. 650. 23. 
Ganga quadrubande. Temm. Pig. et Gall, 3. 252. 
Indian Grous. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 752. 17* 
This beautiful bird is a native of India; but 
nothing is known of its manners : the male is 
adorned with three fasciae on the head, the mid- 
dle one black, and the two outer white : the hind- 
head is reddish ; each feather with a longitudinal 
dusky band :• the neck and the breast are of an 
