INDIAN PTEROCLES. 



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Le Vaillant discovered this species in the country 

 of the Namaquois, on the borders of the great river : 

 it appears to be partial to the sandy portion of the 

 country, but in the vicinity of water : it lives in 

 society, the old and young together, till the com- 

 mencement of the season of courtship, when the 

 young divide, and seek a proper situation to per» 

 form the process of incubation. 



INDIAN PTEROCLES. 

 (Pterocles quadricinctus.) 



Vt, fronte trjfasciata, corpore supra cinereo-JlavOf nigro striato, 

 cingulis pectoris quatuor, castaneo, albo, nigro, alhoque» (Fe- 

 mina absque fascia Jrontis, cingulisque pectoris) 



Pterocles with the forehead with three fasciae j the body above 

 cinereous-yellow, striated with black 5 the breast with four 

 belts, chesnut, white, black, and white. Female without the 

 fasciae on the forehead, or the belts on the breast. 



Pterocles quadricinctus. Temm. Gall, Ind. 713. 



Tetrao Indicus. Gmel. Syst, Nat, 1. 755. 



Perdix Indica. Lath, Ind. Orn. 2. 650. 23. 



Ganga quadrubande. Temm. Pig. et Gall, 3. 252. 



Indian Grous. Lath. Gen. Si/n, 4. 752. I7. 



This beautiful bird is a native of India; but 

 nothing is known of its manners : the male is 

 adorned with three fasciae on the head, the mid- 

 dle one black, and the two outer white : the hind- 

 head is reddish ; each feather with a longitudinal 

 dusky band : the neck and the breast are of an 



