74 GAME BIRDS OF THE PROTECTORATES 
Length 10*8 inches, wing 7 inches, tail 2*8 inches, tarsus 
1 *1 inches. 
Female . — Differs from the male in having the whole chest 
and breast narrowly barred with black, and the barring on the 
upper parts of the body much finer and closer. 
Length 9-7 inches, wing 7 inches, tail 2*8 inches, tarsus 
1*1 inches. 
PTEROCLES QUADRICINCTUS 
Pterocles quadricindus, Temm. 
‘ Ogilvie- Grant’s Cat. Birds Brit. Mus.’ Vol. XXII, page 32. 
‘ Reichenow’s Vogel Afrikas,’ Vol. I, page 313. c Sharpe’s Hand- 
List,’ Vol. I, page 51. 
Pteroclurus quadricindus. 
‘ Shelley’s Birds of Africa,’ Vol. I, page 184. 
The African Painted Sand-grouse is not found in East Africa 
south of the equator. It is plentiful on the Turkwel river, 
and again at Lasamis on the road from the northern Uaso 
Nyiro to Marsabit. 
Male. — Lores, forehead, and stripe above the eye white, 
a wide black band crosses the forehead just in front of the eyes 
and there is an oval black spot above each eye. Feathers of the 
top of the head each with a wide black shaft-stripe. Upper 
back, throat, and chest yellowish-buff ; rest of back, rump, 
and upper and under tail-coverts black, barred with white or 
yellowish-white, narrowly tipped with buff. The chest is 
bounded by a moderately wide chestnut band, succeeded by 
somewhat wider bands of pale yellowish-buff and black ; the 
rest of the under -parts with narrow bars of white and black. 
Length 10*8 inches, wing 6*7 inches, tail 8*8 inches, tarsus 
0*9 inch. 
Female . — Differs from the male in having no white and 
black markings on the head, the sides of the neck and base 
of the throat spotted with black, the chest and upper -parts 
rufous-buff, closely barred with black, the ends of the scapulars 
and the greater part of the outer web of the wing-coverts 
yellowish-buff. No pectoral band. 
Length 10*5 inches, wing 6-2 inches, tail 2*9 inches, 
tarsus 0*9 inch. 
