. The game-birds of India, Burma and Ceylon . n squatting motionless, however long you remain towatch. If approached within a couple of feet, however, the birdwill attempt to fly, with its wild alarm note of yek-yek-yek, andland behind another tuft of grass. After one attempt to fly, if againapproached, it will permit itself to be handled. It is said that bird-catchers in India take these Sand-Grouse by approaching them undercover of leaves and dropping a net suspended at the end of a seen the birds themselves I can readily imagine thepossibility of such a method of capture. To m
. The game-birds of India, Burma and Ceylon . n squatting motionless, however long you remain towatch. If approached within a couple of feet, however, the birdwill attempt to fly, with its wild alarm note of yek-yek-yek, andland behind another tuft of grass. After one attempt to fly, if againapproached, it will permit itself to be handled. It is said that bird-catchers in India take these Sand-Grouse by approaching them undercover of leaves and dropping a net suspended at the end of a seen the birds themselves I can readily imagine thepossibility of such a method of capture. To make up for their uninteresting habits, it must be conceded,however, that the Indian Painted Sand-Grouse have most exquisitelymarked plumage, the markings on the cock especially being moststriking. Even in rough grass they are very difficult to see at shortdistance, but our Enghsh grass is too green to hide them should imagine that in their native haunts they will form a perfectexample of obliterative coloration. > X ft)_sa. ~v. uu i oo Q z l^ f PTEKOGLES CORONATUS ATRATUS 265 PTEROCLES CORONATUS ATRATUS (Hartert).THE CORONETTED SAND-GROUSE. Pterocles coronatus, Lick. Verz. Doubl. p. 65 (1823) ; Hume, Ibis, 1872,p. -168 ; id. ,S. F. i, p. 224 ; Wise, ibid, iii, p. 267 ; Hume, ibid. p. 41;Wise, ibid. p. 230 ; Blanford, E. Persia, ii, p. 272 ; Hmne, S. F. vii,p. 161 ; Hume £ Marsh. Game-B. i, p. 57 ; Butler, Cat. B. of Sind, 53 ; Tufnell, S. F. ix, p. 200 ; Barnes, ibid. pp. 219, 458 ; Lean,ibid. p. 296 ; Barnes, B. of Bom. p. 209 ; id. J. B. N. H. S. v, p. 336;Ogilvie-G-rant, Cat, B. M. xxii, p. 23 ; Blanford, Avifauna of B. I. iv,p. 37; Oates, Game-B. i, p. 41; 0<jilvie-Grant, Game-B. i, p. 18;Le Mess. Game-B. p. 57. Pteroclis coronatus, Shari)e, Hand-L. p. 51 ; Gates, Cat. Eggs B. M. i,p. 51. Pterocles coronatus atratus, Hartert, Bull. B. 0. U. February, 1902;Stuart Baker, J. B. N. H. S. xxii, p. 427 ; Hartert, Trv/. Pal p. 1509(1920). Vernacular Name.
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