NAMAQUA rXEROCLES. 
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bers near Aleppo, for its flesh, which is hard and 
dry, and not relished by Europeans : it is called 
Cata or Alcata in Arabia, and from thence its name 
is derived. 
NAMAQUA PTEIIOCLES. 
(Pterocles tachypetes.) • 
Pt* coY'pore supra cinerascente-fusco., gutture Jlavescoite, vertice 
colloque cinereis, tectricibus alarum apice cinereo-nitidis, pec- 
toris cingidis albo castaneis, ventre cinereo-purpureo. (Femina 
pallide riifescens, collo pecioreque striis fuscis longitudinalibuSy 
corpore iitrinquejusco rufoque transversim striato.) 
Pterocles with the body above grey-brown j the throat yel- 
lowish 5 the crown and neck cinereous j the tips of the wing- 
coverts shining cinereous ; the breast with a belt of white 
and chesnut j the belly grey-purple. {Female pale rufescent j 
the neck and breast with longitudinal brown striae j the body 
on both sides transversely striated with brown and rufous.) 
Pterocles tachypetes. Temm. Gall. Ind. p. 715. 
Tetrao Namaqua. Gmel. Spst. Nat. 1, 754. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 
642. 19 . 
Tetrao Senegalus. Lin, Mant. I'/yi. p. 526. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 
2. 642. 17 . 
La Gelinotte du Senegal. Buff. PI. Enl. ] 30. (young male.) 
Ganga velocifer. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 3. 274. 
Senegal Grous. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 749- 14. a. 
Namaqua Grous. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 7^0. 15. — Lath. Syn. 
Sup. 215. 
