THE DAMARA COUNTRY IN S. W. AFRICA. 
82. Turtur vinaceus (Gm.) ; Lcvaill. Ois. Af. pi. 268. 
83. Peristera afra (Linn.) ; Levaill. Ois. Af. pi. 271. 
84. Steganura paradisea. 
85. Francolinus swainsoni , Smith, Zool. S. Af. pi. 12. 
86. Francolinus gariepensis , Smith, Zool. S. Af. pi. 83, 84. 
87. Pterocles variegatus, Burchell ; Smith, Zool. S. Af. pi. 10. 
88. Pterocles bicinctus, Tern.; Pig. et Gall. v. iii. pp. 247, 713. 
There has been much confusion in ornithological works between 
various African and Indian species of Pterocles , to which the specific 
names bicinctus , tricinctus , and quadricinctus have been given. In 
the proceedings of the Zoological Society, part xviii., p. 220, I 
have pointed out the distinctions between the true P. quadricinctus , 
Tern., of Africa (P. tricinctus of Swainson), and the P. fasciatus 
(Scop.) of India, erroneously named P. quadricinctus by Indian 
ornithologists. Mr. Andersson’s collection has now enabled me 
further to clear up the subject, by affording specimens of the P. 
bicinctus , Tern, (to which Mr. Gray erroneously referred the P. 
tricinctus of Swainson). This rare species, first discovered by 
Levaillant in the Nam aqua country, has never been figured. 
Though closely resembling the P. quadricinctus of Senegal and 
Kordofan in the colours of its head and under parts, it is at once 
distinguished by the absence of the black stripes on the back and 
wings, the feathers on those parts being of a greyisli-brown, with 
a terminal subtriangular white spot. It also wants the chestnut 
hand on the breast, but possesses a very distinct band of white, 
succeeded by one of black, between the fulvous colour of the breast 
aud the finely rayed black and white of the abdomen. 
I may add that this, the P. bicinctus of Temminck, is not the 
P bicinctus of Lichtenstein, the latter being the P. lichtcnsteini of 
Waglcr and other authors. 
89. Coturnix dactylisonans , Meyer \ Plumage darker than 
European and Indian specimens, and of a deeper rufous on the 
cheeks and breast. 
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