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iiig in the middle of the day. Their note is a double 

 cluck, and, as with sand-grouse generally, is usually 

 uttered on the wing. 



Spotted Pin-tailed Sand -Grouse. 



Pteroclurus senegallus. Faun. Brit. Ind., 

 Birds, Vol. IV, p. 6i. 



Native names. — Nundu Katinga, Guiu, in 

 Sind. 



The general colour of the cock of this species is 

 also sandy, with a buff throat, but his wings are in- 

 distinctly mottled with chocolate, and there is a 

 grey band along each side of the head. The belly 

 is dark brown, but there is no black breast-band. 

 The hen is buff, very distinctly spotted with black, 

 not barred, or mottled, as in our other hen Sand- 

 grouse. This species is rare with us except in Sind, 

 west of the Indus, though it extends to the Punjab. 

 Westwards it ranges to Africa, even south of the 

 Sahara, and most of those found in Sind are only 

 winter visitors, though hens have been shot contain- 

 ing fully-formed eggs ; the eggs are-buff spotted with 

 pale, brown and grey. The note of this species is 

 different from that of other Sand-grouse, being a 

 sort of gurgling sound like that produced bj- blowing 

 through water. 



Large Pin-Tailed Sand-Grouse. 



Pteroclurus alchata, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, 

 Vol. IV, p. 58. 



This is a large species, equalling a pigeon in size 

 and of remarkable beauty of plumage. The cock 



