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pairs, but generally singly. When flushed it rarely flies much 
beyond gunshot range, and without beaters or a dog it is 
extremely difficult to make it rise again. It appears to be 
more partial to open bush-country than to the grassy plains. 
This quail has no hind toe. 
Female . — General colour dull light red, the feathers of the 
top of the head, back, rump, upper tail-coverts, tail and 
scapulars barred, and margined internally with black, externally 
with white or grey, giving the back a scaled appearance ; a 
white band down the middle of the head ; lores, stripe over 
the eye, and sides of the head and neck white tipped with black. 
Chin and middle of throat white ; sides of the chest and 
breast whitish-buff, each feather with a heart-shaped sub- 
terminal black spot, centre of the chest bright rust-colour, 
rest of under-parts whitish-buffi Iris, silvery white, bill horn- 
blue, feet white. 
Length 5*7 inches, wing 8*7 inches, tail 1*8 inches, tarsus 
0*9 inches. 
Male . — Differs from the female in being somewhat paler 
on the under-parts, and in the scale-like markings on the 
feathers of the upper-parts extending right over the nape 
to the back of the head. 
Length 5 inches, wing 8*1 inches, tail 1*5 inches, tarsus 
0*85 inches. 
PTEROCLURUS EXUSTUS 
Pteroclurus exustus, Temm. 
‘ Ogilvie-Grant’s Cat. Birds Brit. Mus.’ Vol. XXII, page 12. 
‘ Shelley’s Birds of Africa,’ Vol. I, page 183. * Sharpe’s Hand- 
List,’ Vol. I, page 50. ‘ Reichenow’s Vogel Afrikas,’ Vol. I. 
This is the pin-tailed Sand-grouse, and it appears to confine 
itself in East Africa to the open plains lying to the N.E. of 
Kilimanjaro, where it was very plentiful and breeding in 
1887 ; and the northern Uaso Nyiro. Also Jubaland, on 
the authority of Colonel E. G. Harrison, C.B. 
Male. — Lores, cheeks, throat and nape dull ochre, shading 
into vinaceous buff on the chest ; top of the head, upper back, 
rump, and upper tail-coverts isabelline brown. A narrow 
black band edged with white separates the chest from the 
yellowish-buff upper breast which shades into deep chestnut- 
