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Show 1878.] MR. D. G.ELLIOT ON THE PTEROCLIDA. 215 (1851) pl. ccx. figs. 1833, 1834; Strickl. & Sclat. Confer. Ornith. (1852) p. 157; Lay. B. S. Afr. (1867) p. 279; id. Ibis (1868) p. 269, (1869) p. 375; Ayres, Ibis (1871) p. 262; Anderss. B. Dam.-l. (1872) p. 242. Pterocles maculosus, Smith, 111. S.-Afr. Zool. vol. ii. p. 345 (1822); Gray, Gen. B. vol. iii. p. 519 (1845). Hab. Between Latakoo and the Tropics, South Africa (Smith) ; banks of the Limpopo and Mariqua (Ayres); Damaraland (Andersson). Male. Throat and sides of face pearly-grey. Top of head and occiput deep buff streaked with black. Upper parts and wings brownish-black, tipped with yellowish-ochre, and spotted with white ; the tips of the greater coverts, however, are reddish-ochre. Primaries brownish black, with light edges. Breast and entire underparts bright rufous, each feather with a subterminal white bar. Tail brownish-black, barred with light buff, and tipped with yellowish ochre. Bill black, feet yellowish-brown. Total length 9^ inches, wing 6f, tail 3|, bill along gape \. Female. Top of head bright buff, streaked with dark brown. Sides of head and throat bright uniform buff. Feathers of the back and wings blackish-brown, tipped with light yellowish-brown, and with two or three white bars on the webs, which do not, however, reach the shaft, and give to the back the appearance of being spotted with white. Primaries blackish-brown, edged at the tip with white. Breast reddish-buff, indistinctly barred with white. Underparts dull white, barred with pale brown. Upper tail-coverts like the back. Tail brownish-black, barred and tipped with light buff. Under tail-coverts uniform light buff. Bill black ; feet yellowish-brown. Total length 9| inches, wing 6\, tail 3^, bill along gape %. 6. PTEROCLES ARENARIUS. Tetrao arenaria, Pall. Nov. Comm. Petropol. vol. xix. p. 418, tab. 8 (1774); id. Itiner. vol. iii. App. p. 699, no. 271; id. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. vol. ii. p. 73, pl. (1831); Lath. Ind. Orn. vol. ii. p. 642 (1790); Bonnat. Ency. Meth. torn. i. p. 200 (1790). Sand-Grous, Lath. Syn. vol. ii. pt. 2. p. 751 (1783) ; id. Gen.Hist. B. vol. viii. (1823), p."254. Tetrao fasciatus, Desfont. Mem. de l'Acad. des Sc. p. 502 (1787). Aragonian Partridge, Lath. Syn. Suppl. p. 223 (1787). Perdix aragonica, Lath. Ind. Orn. p. 645 (1790); id. Gen. Hist. B. vol. viii. (1823) p. 256 B. Pterocles arenarius, Temm. Pig. et Gallin. vol. iii. (1815) pp. 240. 712; id. Planch. Col. nos. 52, 53; id. Man. Ornith. (1820) vol. ii. p. 476, vol. iv. p. 330; Wagl. Syst. Av. (1827) Pterocles; Less. Trait. Ornith. (1831) p. 516, sp. 1 ; Fras. Proc. Zool. Soc. (1839) p. 121; Gray, Gen. B. vol. iii. p. 518 (1849); Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. Asiat. Soc. (1849) p. 249 ; Reich. Syn. Av. Gallina- (1851) pl. ccvii. figs. 1809-12; Adams, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1858) p. 501 • Salv. Ibis (1859) p. 352; Tristr. Ibis (1860) p. 69, (1868) p. 211 ; Irbv, Ibis (1861) p. 223 ; Jerd. B. Ind. vol. iii. p. 496 • |