ALCHATA PTEROCLES. 
(Pterocles Alchata.) 
Pt. gutture nigroj pectoris cingulo lato rijfo-aurantio ; nigro mar- 
gmato, corpore supra olivaceo , Jlavicante nigro rufoque 'oario, 
tectricibus alarum castaneo maculatis, corpore subtus albo. (Fe- 
mina gutture albo, deorsum collari dimidiato nigro, tectricibus 
absque maculis castaneis.) 
Pterocles with a black throat •, the breast with a broad rufous- 
orange belt, margined with black ; the body above olive, varied 
with yellowish, black, and rufous ; the wing-coverts spotted 
with chesnutj the body beneath white. {Female with a white 
throat j the lower half of the neck black j the wing-coverts with- 
out the chesnut spots.) 
Pterocles setarius. Temm. Gall. hid. 714. 
Tetrao Alchata. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 276. ll.—Gmel, Syst. NaL 
1. 754. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 641. 16. 
Bonasa Pyreniaca. Briss. Orn. 1. 105. 4. pi. 1. 2. 
Perdix Damascena. Raii. Syn. p. 55. 7* 
Le Ganga, Buff. Ois. 2. 244. 18. — Buff. Pi. Enl. 105. 106. 
Ganga cata. Temm. Pig.et Gall. 3. 256. — Temm. Man. d' Orni. 
p. 301. 
Pintailed Grous. Edvo. Glean, p. 249. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 7*18. 
14. 
This species is rather more than eleven inches 
in length : its throat is black : the sides of the head, 
and the fore-part of the neck, are of an ashy-yel- 
low : on the breast is a broad belt of rufous-orange, 
bordered on each side with a narrow band of black : 
the head, nape, rump, and upper tail-coverts, are 
striped alternately with black and yellow j back 
and scapulars tlic same, with a narrow band of 
