Glen C. Christensen, Wildlife Specialist, Nevada Fish and Game 
Commission, conducted the major studies on the common Indian sandgrouse 
in the Thar Desert, India, while working as a cooperator with the 
Foreign Game Introduction Program during the period 1959-1961. The 
junior author's contribution to the report covers his observations of 
sandgrouse in the 25 to 30 inch rainfall area of north central India 
during the same period. The sandgrouse release areas in Nevada are 
covered by Christensen and those in Hawaii by Bohl. 
The section on the imperial or black-bellied sandgrouse was pre- 
pared by Gardiner Bump, who has observed this species over most of its 
range, supplemented by information contributed by Bohl and Christensen. 
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