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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![the bare ground not far from water. Their flight is exceedingly strong, and on the wing they somewhat resemble some of the Pigeons, especially Colujnba pJueo7iota. On the approach of danger, they crouch and lie very close to the ground, being then extremely difficult to see ; when disturbed, they do not run, but rise quite suddenly with a loud whirring noise. Eggs.—Three, placed on the bare ground amongst grass, without the slightest appearance of a nest. VI. THE MASKED SAND-GROUSE. PTEROCLES PERSONATUS. Pterocles personatus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 15 ; id. Voyage of the “Sulphur.” Zool. p. 49, pi. 30 (1844); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit Mus. xxii. p. 26 (1893). Adult Male.—Belly rufous-buff, closely barred with black; tarsi uniform buff, not barred with black or brown ; under tail- coverts uniform buff; upper surface of the shaft of the first flight-feather dark or dusky, 7iever white; a broad black band surrounding the gape; upper back uniform isabelline-brown. Total length, ir6 inches; wing, 8*5; tail, 37 ; tarsus, i. Adult Female.—Distinguished by having no black band round the gape ; the upper back^ as well as the lower breast and belly, barred with black. Total length, 11-5 inches; wing, 8; tail, 3*4 ; tarsus, i. Range.—Peculiar to the island of Madagascar. VII. CLOSE-BARRED SAND-GROUSE. PTEROCLES LICHTENSTEINI. Pterocles lichtenstemi, Temm. PI. Col. v. pis. 25, 26 [Nos. 355, 361] (1825); Hume and Marshall, Game Birds of India, i. p. 65, pi. (1878); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii.p. 29 (1893). Adult Male.—Tarsus unifor)n white; under tail-coverts closely barred with black ; a pectoral band of four bars, buff, reddish- brown, buff and black ; throat spotted with black; chest above the pectoral band narrowly barred with black; the wing-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28122458_0001_0044.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
