192 PTEROCLID^ PTEBOCLUEUS 



Asia from Spain to the Indian Peninsula and Africa. Only one of 

 them is found within our limits. 



646. Pteroclurus namaqua. Namaqua Sandgrouse. 



Tetrao namaqua, Omel., Syst. Nat. i, p. 754 (1788) ; Burchell, Travels 

 i, pp. 265, 303 (1822). 



Pterocles taohypetes, Temm. Pig. et Gall, iii, pp. 274, 715 (1815) ; 

 Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 277 (1867) ; id. Ibis, 1869, p. 75 ; Ayres, Ibis, 

 1871, p. 262 ; Bryden, Kloof and Karoo, p. 315 (1889) ; id. Gun and 

 Camera, p. 289 (1893) ; id. Nature and Sport, p. 33 (1897). 



Pteroolurus namaqua, Gurney, in Andersson's B. Baviaral. p. 242 

 (1872) ; Gra7it, Cat. B. M. xxii, p. 10 (1893) ; id. Game Bds. i, p. 11 

 (1896) ; Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 183 (1896) ; Beichenow, Vbg. Afr. i, 

 p. 818 (1901) ; Whitehead, Ibis, 1903, p. 284 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, 

 p. 4 [Deelfontein]. 



Pterocles namaqua, Elliot, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 252 ; Boeage, Orn. 

 Angola, p. 396 (1881) ; Holub d Pelz. Orn. Sild-Afr. p. 182 (1882) ; 

 Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. 8. Afr. pp. 574, 854 (1884) ; Ayres, Ibis, 

 1886, p. 292 ; Symonds, Ibis, 1887, p. 338 ; Nicolls and Eglington, 

 Sportsm. 8. A. p. 109 (1892) ; Flech, Journ. Ornith. 1894, p. 384. 



"Namaqua Partridge" of English, "Namaqua Patrijs " or "Kelkje 

 Wijn" of Dutch Colonists. 



Fig. 62. — Head of Pterochirus namaqua. x \l 



Description. Adult male. — Head and back pale brown, the 

 cheeks, sides of the neck and nape suffused with a mustardy yellow 

 tinge, most of the feathers of the back and wing-coverts with a 

 subterminal buffy yellow blotch and a lilac blue, darkening to black, 

 terminal spot ; primary-quills dusky black, the inner ones with white 

 inner webs and tips; the greater coverts like the quills; tail of 

 sixteen feathers, the two central ones dusky, becoming hlack at the 

 ■ tip and produced into a point ; lateral ones with conspicuous buff 

 tips ; below the chin and throat orange-buff, shading through yellow 

 into pale brown on the chest becoming darker on the lower breast ; 



