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Show 1878.] MR. D. G. ELLIOT ON THE PTEROCLID^E. 243 ashy white with a few almost obliterated pale-brown markings. In Egypt Capt. Shelley found this species to be rare, and also in Nubia ; and he does not think it goes into the Delta. Dr. Adams met with it at the Second Cataract; and when at El Kab, Mr. Allen killed a pair out of a flock that came down to drink at a pool. Their cry was hoarser than that of the common species (P. exustusl), Male. A line on each side of the forehead, from the nostril to above the eye, chin, and a narrow line down the centre of the throat jet black. A pearly grey band on each side of the occiput, meeting at the back of the neck. Centre of forehead white. Top of head vinous. Sides of neck, throat, and lower part of neck behind orange. Upper parts and wings vinous, with the tips of the wing-coverts pale buff, surrounded by a dark grey margin on the inner side. Primaries dark brown, with the tips of the 5th to 9th buffy-white; shafts of first two pure white, of the rest brownish white. Entire underparts pale sandy-buff, darkest on the middle of abdomen and vent. Median rectrices not extending beyond the rest, vinous. Lateral feathers pale rufous, with a subterminal bar of black, and white tips. Bill bluish. Feet dark brown. Total length 10 inches; wing 7\, tail 3^, bill along gape §. Female. Throat and sides of the neck orange, palest on the chin. Entire upper parts sandy buff with a vinous tinge, barred narrowly with black. Wings paler buff, irregularly barred with fine black lines, broadest and most conspicuous on the scapulars and some of the inner secondaries. Breast and underparts very pale buff, almost white upon the flanks, each feather margined with pale brown. Under tail-coverts yellowish white. Tail vinous, with a subterminal black bar, and white tip. Total length 10 inches, wing 7f, tail 3|, bill along gape f. 4. PTEROCLES SENEGALUS. Tetrao senegalus, Linn. Mantissa (1771) p. 526 ; Lath. Ind. Orn. vol. ii. p. 642. La Gelinotte de Senegal, Buff. Planch. Enlum. p. 130. Pin-tailed Grous, var. A, Lath. Gen. Syn. (1783) p. 748. Senegal Grous, Lath. Gen. Hist. B. vol. viii. (1823) p. 253. Pterocles guttatus, Licht. Verz. d. Doubl. (1823) p. 64 ; Riipp. Neue Wirbelth. (1823-1835) p. 114 ; Wagl. Syst. Av. (1827), Pterocles, sp. 8; Less. Trait. Ornith. (1831) p. 517. sp. 8; Allen, Ibis (1864) p. 240; Gould, B. Asia, pt. iii. pl. 6; Hume, Ibis (1872) p. 468 ; Von Heugl. Ornith. Nordost-Afr. Band ii. (1873) p. 860. Pterocles senegalensis, Shaw, Nat. Misc. vol. iv. pl. 933 ; Taylor, Ibis (1859) p. 50, (1867) p. 67 ; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. Vog. Nordost- Afr. (1855) p. 304 ; Speke, Ibis (1860) p. 247 ; Tristr. Ibis (1868) p. 211 ; Taczanow. Journ. fiir Ornith. (1870) p. 51 ; Shelley, Ibis (1871) p. 144. Pterocles senegalus, Gray, Gen. B. vol. m. p. 519 (1845) ; Tristr. Ibis (1860) p. 71. Pteroclurus senegalus, Bon. Compt. Rend. (1856) vol. xiii. p. 880; Reich. Syn. Av. Gallinae (1851) pl. ccx. figs. 1831, 1832. 16* |
