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extremities. Chest grey, tinged with vinaceous, shading into 
dark chestnut on the breast, belly, and under tail-coverts. 
Tarsi rufous buff. Tail, middle pair of feathers like the upper 
tail-coverts ; rest black, barred and tipped with chestnut. 
Length 12 inches, wing 8-3 inches, tail 3*4 inches, tarsus 
1 -2 inches. 
Female . — A brownish-black band from the nostril to the 
eye, a narrow black stripe from the lores to the back of 
the eye, and the chin and throat yellowish-buff. Feathers of 
the top of the head, back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and chest 
yellowish-buff, each with a wide black shaft-stripe enlarged at 
the extremity, the lower tail-coverts being also barred with 
black. Breast, belly, and flanks dull rufous buff closely barred 
with black, under tail-coverts dark chestnut. Middle pair of 
tail feathers yellowish-buff, barred with black like the longer 
upper tail-coverts ; rest like those of the male. 
Length 11*6 inches, wing 8-2 inches, tail 3T inches, 
tarsus IT inches. 
PTEROCLES LICHTENSTEINI 
Pterocles lichtensteini, Temm. 
‘ Ogilvie- Grant’s Cat. Birds Brit. Mus.’ Vol. XXII, page 29. 
‘ Reichenow’s Vogel Afrikas,’ Vol. I, page 311. ‘ Sharpe’s Hand- 
List,’ Vol. I, page 51. 
Pteroclurus lichtensteini. 
* Shelley’s Birds of Africa,’ Vol. I, page 184. 
The close-barred Sand-grouse is not found in East Africa 
south of the Equator. It is plentiful on the Turkwel river, 
and ranges as far east as Baringo and Lake Hannington. In 
January 1890 it used to drink regularly in the Turkwel river 
about 7 a.m. and again after sunset, when it was almost too 
dark to see them as they flew close to the ground like plovers. 
Male . — General ground colour pale whitish-buff, throat 
and neck spotted with black, the rest of the upper -parts and 
chest closely barred with narrow bands of black ; upper breast 
yellowish-buff, divided in the middle by a narrow dark chestnut 
band (sometimes black), and separated posteriorly from the 
rest of the under-parts by a black band, giving the breast a 
four-banded appearance. Tarsi pure white. 
