GROUS. 261 



ends, and edged with white ; belly and thighs banded whitish and 

 black ; on the breast four bands, or collars ; the first fulvous brown, 

 then white, the third black, and finally one of white; quills dusky 

 brown; the tail somewhat rounded at the end, yellowish, crossed with 

 dusky black bands ; the legs and toes yellow ; the shins, on the fore 

 part, yellowish ash-colour, finely dotted with black. 



In the female, the white on the forehead is much less conspicuous, 

 only just appearing over the bill ; the plumage in general paler, and 

 less distinct. 



Inhabits India ; found by Sonnerat on the Coast of Coromandel, 

 by the name of Chinese Quail. 



*** BACK TOE WANTING. 



26— HETEROCLITE GROUS. 



Tetrao paradoxus, Ind. Orn. ii. 643. 



Syrrhaptes Pallasii, Heteroclite Pallas, Tern. Pig. Sf Gall. 8vo. iii. p. 2S2. 



Tetrao paradoxa, Pall. It. ii. 712. 25. t. F. Gm. Lin. i. 755. 



Heteroclite, Tern. Man. Ed.W. Anal. p. xciv. Tab. Enc. Orn. 205. t. 93. f. 1. 



Heteroclite Grous, Gen. Syn. iv. 753. 



THE bill in this Species is more slender than usual in the Grous 

 kind, the upper mandible not fornicated, nor receiving the lower; 

 head, and neck to the throat, hoary, but the chin yellowish ; on each 

 side of the neck an orange spot : round the throat a circular streak, 

 composed of numerous, transverse, slender, black lines; the back, 

 between the wings, and quite to the tail, undulated black and grey, 

 as in the Bustard ; breast pale reddish ash-colour ; beyond this, to 

 the vent, black, with pale spots ; the bastard wing undulated with 

 black, and marked with large, brownish, blood-coloured spots at the 



