250 GROUS. 



** THE BACK TOE INCOMPLETE. 



17.— PINT AILED GROUS. 



Tetrao Alchata, Lid. Orn. ii. 641. Lin. i. 276. Gm. Lin. i. 754. Hasselq. It. 281. 



Id. Voy. p. 204. Faun. arag. 81. Klein, Av. 115. 5. Borowsk. ii. 129. t. 31. B. 

 Pterocles setarius, Temm. Man. d'Orn. 301. Id. Ed. ii. 478. Id. Pig. Sf Gall. 8vo. iii. 



p. 256. 

 Bonasa Pyrenaica, Bris. i. 195. 1. 19. f. 1. 2. Id. Svo. i. 54. 

 Perdix Damascene, Raii, 55. 7. Will. 128. t. 29. 

 Tetrao caudacutus, Gmel. reise, iii. p. 93. t. 18. 

 Le Ganga, Buf. ii. 244. pi. 8. Sonn. Buf. vi. p. 5. pi. 41. PI. enl. 105. 106. Voy,. 



en Barb. i. 269. Tab. Enc. Orn. 203. pi. 92. f. 3. 

 Le Grandoule, Hist. Prov. i. 354. 



Kitiwiah, Kata, Shaw's Trav. pi. p. 253. Russ. Alep.QA. pi. 9. 

 Partridge of Damascus, Will. Engl. 178. pi. 29. 

 Pintailed Grous, Gen. Syn.'w. 748. Edw. pi. 249. female. 



SIZE of a Partridge ; length thirteen inches and a half. Bill 

 brown; round the eye black, passing in a streak backwards; head, 

 neck behind, and back, variegated with olive, yellowish, tawny, and 

 black ; the sides of the head, and part of the neck before, yellowish 

 ash-colour; the chin and throat black ; lower part of the neck, and 

 breast olive, bounded above and below with a black line ; from the 

 breast to the vent white ; the wing coverts striped orange and coffee- 

 colour, mixed with white; quills cinereous; tail brown, crossed with 

 black lines; the two middle feathers much longer than the rest, and 

 pointed at the ends ; the elongated parts black ; the rest of the tail 

 rounded in shape, and the feathers white at the ends ; legs cinereous, 

 covered before with short, downy, white feathers ; toes pectinated 

 on the sides, and the hind toe very short.* 



* This deceived Shaw, who says, it has no back toe. Russel calls hind toe only a spur. 



