258 grous. 



the tail, which is somewhat cuneiform ; the two middle feathers 

 yellow cream-colour, barred and tipped with black; the others 

 rufous, spotted with black, and the same at the ends ; legs brownish 

 red, and hairy before; behind smooth and dusky; the hind toe placed 

 higher up, too much so to be useful, and furnished with a claw, but 

 no spur behind. 



I met with a drawing of this in the collection of Sir J. Anstruther, 

 by which I learn, that the bird is called Gronautun punduh, and 

 found in the Snowy Mountains of Surinagur ; that the figure is about 

 three-fourths of its natural size ; the weight two quarters and a half 

 of a sare, which is equal to two pounds ; hence as in the drawing, 

 the bird is little more than twelve inches, the true length is probably 

 about fifteen inches. 



23— BAHTAH GROUS. 



LENGTH from the point of the bill to that of the elongated tail 

 feathers thirteen inches. Bill half an inch, black ; round the eye 

 bare ; head, neck, back, and wings, brownish buff, or clay-colour, 

 paler on the fore parts ; wing coverts, except the lesser ones, fringed 

 at the ends with bright chestnut, forming three or four narrow lines 

 across the wing ; on the breast a narrow bar of the same ; lower 

 part of the breast and belly, and under the wings, deep chestnut; 

 vent clay-colour; the five first quills chocolate brown, the shafts 

 white beneath ; the others and secondaries the same, with the ends 

 white ; tail cuneiform, like the quills, near the end a dusky bar, and 

 finished to the tip with pale buff; the two middle feathers chocolate 

 brown, continued more than one inch beyond the rest, and running 

 to a point ; the quills reach half way on the tail ; the legs brown, 

 feathered on the fore part with clay-coloured down ; behind a claw 

 only, without a toe. 



