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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![Nest.—A slight depression scratched in the soil, sheltered by a tuft of grass or low bush. Eggs.—Two, but more often three are laid; rarely four. Pale salmon, and sometimes buffy stone-colour, with the usual purple spots and clouds underlying specks and tiny streaks of brownish-red. Measurements average i’42 by 0*98 inch. X. THE AFRICAN PAINTED SAND-GROUSE. PTEROCLES QUADRICINCTUS. Pterodes quadricinctus, Temm. Pig. et Gall. iii. pp. 252, 713 (1815); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 32 (1893). Ginas bicinctus^ Vieillot {nec Temm.), Gal. Ois. iii. p. 60, pi. 220 (1825). Pterodes tridndus^ Swains. B. W. Africa, p. 222, pi. xxiii. [female] (1837). Adult Male.—Under tail-coverts closely barred with black ; a pectoral band of //^r^^bars, chestnut, white or buff, and black ; throat not spotted with black; chest above the pectoral band uniform ; and each wing-covert with one or tivo separate deep black bars, narrowly edged on each side with white. The male of this species closely resembles that of the Indian Painted Sand-Grouse (/’. fasciatus), but may be at once distinguished by the markings on the wing-coverts. Adult Female.—No pectoral band; no spots on the throat; upper breast uniform buff, contrasting with the belly, which is barred with white and black; tarsus barred with black. , Range.—Extends from Senegambia in the west, to Abyssinia ■'ll the east. Hal)its —Unknown.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28122458_0001_0048.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
