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Inhabits India, and there called Bahtah Teetur. A similar one 

 was brought from the Cape of Good Hope, by Captain Paterson, 

 which, besides having the crescent on the breast, had a similar one 

 the back of the neck. 



One, supposed to be the female, if not the young bird, was of 

 the same ground-colour, but streaked on the top of the head and 

 neck with brown ; back and wings marbled with brown, and deep 

 clay-colour ; most of the feathers barred across, three or four times, 

 with the darker colour ; outer series of the wing coverts fine buff or 

 clay, without markings ; tail not greatly differing from that above 

 described, but without the elongated middle feathers, and, for the 

 greater part of the length, barred dusky and clay-colour on the outer 

 web; the narrow bar across the breast scarcely perceivable; quills as 

 in the other ; belly deep chestnut, but less bright than in the first ; 

 legs the same. 



One, figured among the drawings of General Hardwicke, said 

 to be a female, had the ground colour much the same as in the others ; 

 neck behind, and round to the breast, streaked and blotched with 

 dusky; cheeks and chin pale buff; back and wings with transverse 

 irregular marks of black, different in shape, but chiefly in short 

 bands ; the lower row of wing coverts plain ; quills dusky, several 

 of the lesser ones whitish at their ends ; across the breast a double 

 line of black ; below this, for half an inch, buff-colour ; the rest 

 ferruginous buff, with numerous transverse dusky bands ; the legs 

 as in the former. — Inhabits India. 



24— DOUBLE-BANDED GROUS. 



Pterocles bicinctus, Ganga bibande, Temm. Pig. fy Gall. Svo. iii. 247. 



LENGTH nine inches and a half. Bill yellowish, slender, 

 straight, curved just at the tip ; at the base a spot of white, behind 

 which a broad band of black extends from eye to eye, and this is 



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