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Show 248 MR. D. G. ELLIOT ON THE PTEROCLIDA. [Feb. 19, dark brown, crossed with narrow indistinct brownish-black lines, tipped with buffy white. Under tail-coverts black, tipped with white. Thighs brownish black ; tarsi covered in front with short buffy-white feathers. Bill brownish, with a black tip. Total length 11^ inches, wing 9, tail 3f, bill along gape f-. A young bird from Erzeroum has the head, back, wings, and breast light buff, with a central line and one or more bars on each feather black, some crossing in a direct line, some in the shape of arrowheads. Primaries greyish black, with buffy-white tips. Abdomen and flanks black. Middle rectrices light buff, crossed with numerous narrow curved black bars ; the lateral ones greyish black along the shafts, buff on the outer margin, barred with black and tipped with white, this last increasing in extent as it goes towards the external feather. Under tail-coverts brownish black, and tipped with white. 7. PTEROCLES EXUSTUS. Bahtah Grous, Lath. Gen. Hist. Birds, vol. viii. (1823) p. 258. Pterocles senegalensis, Licht. (nee Shaw), Verz. Doubl. p. 64 (1823). Pterocles exustus, Tern. Pl. Col. (1825) nos. 354, 360 ; Wagl, Syst. Av. (1827), Pterocles, sp. 9 ; Riipp. Neue Wirbelth. (1823-35) p. 114; Less. Trait. Ornith. (1831) p. 517, sp. 9; Sykes, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1832) p. 154 ; Gray, Gen. B. vol. iii. p. 519 (1849); Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. Asiat. Soc. (1849) p. 249 ; Reich. Syn. Av. Gallinse (1851) pl. ccix. figs. 1823-24 ; Jerd. Madr. Journ. vol. xii. p. 3 ; Hutt. Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. vol. xvi. p. 785 ; Burgess, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1855) p. 30 ; Von Heugl. Syst. Uebers. Vog. N.O.- Afr. (1855) p. 304; Hartl. Syst. Ornith. W.-Afr. (1857) p. 205; Adams, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1858) p. 502 ; Taylor, Ibis (1859) p. 50, (1867) p. 67; Irby, Ibis (1861) p. 235; Jerd. B. Ind. vol. iii. (1864) p. 502; Tristr. Proc. Zool. Soc. (1864) p. 449; Gould, B. Asia, pt. ii. pl. 13; Adams, Ibis (1864) p. 27; Allen, Ibis (1864) p. 240; Tristr. Ibis (1868) p. 211; Beavan, Ibis (1868) p. 378 ; Blanf. Geol. & Zool. Abyss. (1870) p. 410 ; Shelley, Ibis (1871) p. 153; id. B. Egypt (1872) p. 218; Lloyd, Ibis (1873) p. 415 ; Hume, Str. Feath. (1873) vol. i. p. 225; Adams, Str. Feath. (1873) vol. i. p. 392; Von Heugl. Oruith. Nordost-Afr. Band ii. p. 855 (1873); id. Journ. fiir Ornith. (1875) p. 57; Butl. Str. Feath. (1875) vol. iii. p. 4; Fairb. Str. Feath. (1876) vol. iv. p. 262. Pteroclurus exustus, Ball, Str. Feath. (1874) vol. ii. p. 426. Bar-titar, Bukt-titar, Kumar-tit, Hind.; Kuhar, N.W. Prov.; Jam polanka, Tel. ; Kal-Kondari, Tarn. (Jerdon). Gutta in Egypt (Adams). Hab. N.E. Africa and Arabia (Heuglin); Egypt and Nubia (Shelley); Upper Egypt (Adams) ; Hindustan, Middle and Western Asia, Southern Europe, North Africa (Blyth); Abyssinia (Blanford) ; Senegal, Mus. Berl. (Hartlaub) ; Casamanze (Verreaux) ; Nubia and Abyssinia (Riippell) ; Palestine (Tristram) ; India, gene- |
