Chestnut-bellied sandgrouse or common sandgrouse, Pterocles exustus. The singed grous. Drawn by soldier naturalist General Thomas Hardwicke of the British East India Company. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Edward Griffith's The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London, Whittaker, 1829.

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