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occasionally assemble in thousands, and drink about 4 p.m. Breed throughout 
the year, laying three eggs in the bare sand. 
THE SPOTTED PIN-TAILED SAND GROUSE. 
Pieroelurus senegalloo. Native names • Nundu Katinga Gutu , Sind. 
Habitat .—Common in Sind in winter and less frequent in the Punjab and 
Rajpu tana. 
Description .—Male—upper plumage brown, tail-coverts yellow, broad grey 
band on each side of the head meeting behind the crown. Wing quills brown 
with black shafts, tipped with black. Throat, sides of the head and neck bright 
yellow. Lower plumage brown with a black patch on the middle of the belly, 
middle tail feather brown tipped with black; others broadly tipped with white. 
Feathers under the tail white. 
The female resembles the male except that the whole upper plumage, sides 
of the neck and chest are thickly spotted black. 
Length, 13 inches ; wing, ~i\ inches; tail, 5 inches; legs, bluish; irides, 
brown ; bill, bluish ; weight, 12 oz. 
