grous. 253 



Mr. Barrow* says, the Cape Partridges and Hamaaqua Grous 

 are equally plentiful at the Cape of Good Hope, about Sea Cow 

 River; the latter gregarious, and met with in large covies, near all 

 the springs of water, and so little intimidated at the approach of 

 our people, that they suffered themselves to be knocked down with 

 whips and sticks. 



19.— SENEGAL GROUS. 



Tetrao Senegalus, Ind. Orn. ii. 642. Lin. Mont. 1771. 526. 



La Gelinotte du Senegal, PI. enl. 130. 



Senegal Grous, Gen. Syn.iv. 749. Nat. Misc. xxii. pi. 933. 



THIS is scarcely twelve inches in length. Bill dusky; general 

 colour of the plumage pale tawny red ; over the eye bluish ; chin 

 and throat yellow; fore part of the neck, and breast mottled with 

 pale blue; wing coverts marked with dusky spots; secondaries and 

 ends of the larger quills dusky ; the two middle tail feathers longer 

 than the rest, as in the Pintailed Species ; the rest shorten by degrees, 

 and of much the same colour as in that bird ; the legs pale brown, 

 feathered on the fore part; hind toe small, and placed above the heel. 



Inhabits Senegal.— I have seen two specimens, both of which 

 differed only in having a rufous band on the breast, and the colours, 

 though much the same, duller than in the PI. enluminees. M. 

 Temminck thinks this to be the same with the Namaqua, or last 

 Species. 



20— LIBYAN GROUS.— Pl. cxxviii. 



LENGTH eleven inches or more. Bill three-fourths of an inch, 

 black ; plumage in general pale buff, or cream-colour; all the upper 

 parts and breast marked with dusky black spots; on the top of the 



* Trav. p. 264. 



