DOUBLE-GIRDED PTEROCLES. 



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and are so eager as to suffer the sportsman to cap- 

 ture them with facihty. Their food consists of 

 the seeds of various kinds of Astragalus: the female 

 Jays four or five eggs, which are white, spotted 

 with brown ; they are deposited in a nest placed 

 amongst thick briars. 



DOUBLE-GIRDED PTEROCLES, 

 (Pterocles bicinctus.) 



VT.Jronte nigrdf macula supra oculos albd, corpore supra cinereo-' 

 Jiisco maculis albis triangularibus variegato ; collo pectoreque 

 cinereo-JiaviSf cingiilo pectoris duplici albo nigroque, corpore 

 subtus albo et Jusco striato, (Femina absque cingulis et Jrontis 

 macula nigra, penuis Juscis, rufo et albescente-Jlavo striatis,) 



Pterocles with the forehead black, a spot above the eyes white ; 

 the body above cinereous-brown, variegated with triangular 

 white spots ; the throat and breast cinereous-yellow, the latter 

 with a double belt of black and white 3 the body beneath stri- 

 ated with white and fuscous. Female without the belt and 

 the black spot on the forehead 3 the quills brown, striated 

 with rufous and whitish-yellow. 



Pterocles bicinctus. Temm. GalL Ind. 713. 



Ganga bibande. Temm, Pig, et Gall. 3. p, 247. 



A NEW species described by Temminck : it is in 

 length rather above ten inches: the male has a 

 small spot of white at the base of the beak, and a 

 broad band of black extending across the forehead 

 from one eye to the other; this is accompanied 

 above the eyes with two broad lateral spots of a 



