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THE COMMON PIN-TAILED SAND GROUSE. 
Pteroclurus exhustus. Native names : Bur-titur , Kumar-titur, Kuhar, 
Hind.; Bootabur , Batibun, Sind; Pokundi , Mahr. ; Jampalonka , Tel.; Aa/ 
Kondari , Tam. 
Habitat .—A permanent resident in Sind, the Punjab, Behar, Chota Nag- 
pore, and southwards to Mysore. 
Description.— -Male—crown and upper plumage fulvous brown; sides of 
head, throat and neck ring light buff. First five quills of wing black; next 
five black tipped with white. Tail, fulvous, with black tips. Chest pinkish buff 
with a narrow black band, lower breast buff, belly and sides chocolate brown, 
feathers under tail creamy white. 
Female—upper feathers of chest, upper breast fulvous, spotted black. Tail 
feathers black, barred, and tipped fulvous, ends of middle feathers black. First 
five quills of the wing black, next five barred with white, belly barred with 
chocolate, brown and fulvous. 
Length, 13 inches ; wing, 7 inches; tail, 5J- inches; legs, bluish ; irides, 
brown ; bill, bluish ; weight, 10 oz. 
They affect open sandy country with ploughed lands and fallow fields 
between, are extremely difficult to see on the ground, not particularly wary, 
