PTEROCLES SENEGALLUS. 



(SENEGAL SAND-GROUSE.) 



Gelinotte de Senegal, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. ii. p. 250 (1771). 



Tetrao senegallus, Linn. Mantissa, p. 526 (1771). 



Pin-tailed Grouse, var. A, Latham, Gen. Synop. ii. p. 749 (1783). 



Tetrao senegalus, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 642 (1790). 



Pterocles guttatus, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 64 (1823). 



Pterocles senegalus (Linn.), Gray, Gen. of'B. iii. p. 519 (1845). 



Pterocles senegalensis, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 106. no. 384 (1845). 



Pteroelurus senegalus (Linn.), Bp. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 880 (1856). 



Pterocles senegallus (Linn.), Shelley, B. of Egypt, p. 220 (1872). 



Pteroelurus senegallus (Linn.), Ogilvie Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 14 (1893). 



Fulcu, Somali ; Kittaviah, Berber ; Quata, Arabic. 



Figures notabiles. 



D'Aubenton, PI. Enl. 130; Temm. PL Col. v. pi. xxvii. ; Gould, B. of Asia, vi. pi. lxii.; 

 Koenig, J. f. O. 1895, Taf. xii. 



$ ad. pileo et corpore supra lsete isabellinis, supracaudalibus ochraceo-isabellinis : pilei lateribus, loris et 

 nucha postica dilute cseruleo-cinereis : primariis isabellinis, in pogonio interno fumoso adumbratis et 

 fumoso-fusco terminatis : secundariis fusco-isabellinis ad basin, versus apicem fuscis et ochraceo- 

 isabellino apicatis : tectricibus minoribus dorso con color ibus, reliquis in basi fulvescenti-canis, versus 

 apicem fuscis et isabellino apicatis : rectricibus medianis valde elongatis, versus apicem angustatis, 

 fulvescenti-isabellinis, in dimidio apicali fumoso-fuscis, reliquis in dimidio basali isabellino-fuscis, 

 versus apicem nigricantibus et albo apicatis : capitis lateribus et gula ochraceis, gutture eano, corpore 

 reliquo subtiis isabellino : abdomine medialiter nigro : subcaudalibus isabellino-albidis, in dimidio 

 basali nigris : rostro corneo-cserulescente : digitis nigro-fuscis : iride umbrina. 



? ad. pileo, nucha et corpore supra cum tectricibus alarum et supracaudalibus isabellinis, nigro guttatis : 

 rectricibus medianis paulo brevioribus et obsolete nigro fasciatis : genis, regione parotica, mento et gul& 

 ltete ochraceo-aurantiacis : gutture et pectore isabellinis nigro guttatis : partibus inferioribus aliter 

 sicut in mare coloratis. 



Adult Male (Sind, June). Crown, back, rump, and upper tail-coverts dark isabelline, rather yellow on the 

 upper tail-coverts ; sides of the crown to below the eye, nape, and hind neck blue-grey ; primaries greyish 

 isabelline, becoming brown towards the tip, and on the inner web washed with brown; secondaries 

 isabelline brown on the basal portion, becoming dark brown towards the tip, and margined with warm 

 isabelline; lesser wing-coverts like the back, the remaining coverts greyish at the base, then warm 

 brown tipped with isabelline; central tail-feathers yellowish isabelline on the basal half, then dark 

 brown, much elongated and attenuated, remaining tail-feathers isabelline brown at the base, then 

 blackish, tipped with white; sides of the head below the eye and throat ochre, the lower throat bluish 

 grey; rest of the underparts isabelline, rather paler than the back; centre of the abdomen black; 



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