Volume 1
A hand-book to the game-birds / by W.R. Ogilvie-Grant.
- William Robert Ogilvie-Grant
- Date:
- 1896-1897
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A hand-book to the game-birds / by W.R. Ogilvie-Grant. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Soutl'iern Sahara and found it breeding. Practically nothing is known regarding the habits or ^irecise area of distribution of this bird. Eggs.—Ashy-white, with a few, almost obliterated, pale brown markings, V. smith’s chestnut-vented sand-grouse. PTEROCLE3 GUTTURALIS. rteroclesgutturalis^ Smith, Rep. Exped. Centr. Afr. p. 56 (1836) and Zool. S. Afr. pi. iii. [male] and pi. xxxi. [female] (1838-9); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 25 (1893). Adult Male.—Belly uniform deep chestnut; tarsus uniform rufous-buff, 7iot barred with black or brown; under tail- coverts uniform dark chestnut; upper surface of the shaft of the first flight-feather dark or dusky, never white ; eyebrow- stripe and throat pale yellowish-buff; a black band across the neck, and a second one from the gape to the eye. Total length, 12 inches; wing, 8*3 ; tail, 3*4; tarsus, i’2. Adult Female.—Differs in having 710 7)ia7'ked eyebrow-stripe; no black band across the throat; that from the gape to the eye brownish ; and the lower breast and belly chestnut, barred with black. Total length, ii'6 inches; wing, 8*2; tail, 3-1; tarsus, i‘i. Range.—Found in South-eastern, Eastern, and North-eastern Africa, from the Transvaal to the highlands of Abyssinia and to the Wembaere Steppes and Masai-land. Habits.—This large and handsome bird is one of the most plentiful of the Sand Grouse near the Limpopo, and Ayres found it breeding there in June. In the neighbourhood of Potchefstroom, he tells us, they are tolerably plentiful towards the end of winter and beginning of spring, but appear to leave in summer. They are seldom met with singly, generally in companies of from three to a dozen or more, and frequent c 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28122458_0001_0043.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
