. Birds. Birds. SYEBHAPTES. 63 1323. Syrrhaptes tibetanus. The Tibetan Sand-Grouse. Syrrhaptes tibetanus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1850, p. 92 ; id. B. Asia, vi, p. 61; Blanfurd, J. A. S. B. xli, pt. 2, p. 71 ; Hume harpe, Yarhand Miss., Aves, p. 119; Ogiluie Grant, Cat. B. M. xxii, p. o, Kuk, Kaling, Ladak. Coloration. i"orehead, lores, cheeks, and chin white, or whitish, sometimes speckled ; crown rather irregularly barred across, black and wliite; sides of head, throat, and a band extending nearly or sometimes quite round the neck, deep ochreous yellow; lower neck all round narrowly barred with
. Birds. Birds. SYEBHAPTES. 63 1323. Syrrhaptes tibetanus. The Tibetan Sand-Grouse. Syrrhaptes tibetanus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1850, p. 92 ; id. B. Asia, vi, p. 61; Blanfurd, J. A. S. B. xli, pt. 2, p. 71 ; Hume harpe, Yarhand Miss., Aves, p. 119; Ogiluie Grant, Cat. B. M. xxii, p. o, Kuk, Kaling, Ladak. Coloration. i"orehead, lores, cheeks, and chin white, or whitish, sometimes speckled ; crown rather irregularly barred across, black and wliite; sides of head, throat, and a band extending nearly or sometimes quite round the neck, deep ochreous yellow; lower neck all round narrowly barred with whitish and black; this passes into. Fig. 11.—Sole of foot of & tibetanus. the pale fawn with fine dusky vermiculation of the back, scapulars, tertiaries, and wing-coverts ; inner webs of scapulars partly black, forming large black spots; primary-coverts light brown, greater coverts and quills black, later primaries with oblique pale tips, later secondaries and tertiaries passing gradually into the colour of the back; rump and upper tail-coverts whitish, rather more coarsely vermiculated with black; middle tail-feathers the same but tinged with rufous, the loug tips black, outer tail-feathers light chesinut with a few distant black cross-bars and white tips ; upper breast finely barred; lower breast uniform pale greyish brown, passiug into white on abdomen ; wing-liuing brown, whitish near edge. In the females the markings on the upper parts, especially on the back and scapulars, are coarser, being irregular bars, not mere vermiculation; and the whole breast is barred. Bill and nails bluish, soles whitish (Hume). Length of male 19; tail 7"5 to 9-5; wing 10-25 : tarsus 1-1; bill from gape "6. In females the length is about 17 ; tail 7-8-4 ; wing 9-75. Distribution. Eesident in Tibet and on the Pamir at elevations above 12,000 feet, perhaps lower in winter, extending to the country north of Sikhim and to Koko-nor. Common in Ladak and the Upper Sutlej valley. Habi
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