sand-grousen.
Any bird of the group Pteroclomorphæ, inhabiting sandy tracts of the old world, consisting of two genera Pterocles (esp. P. arenarius, the Sand-grouse proper, and P. alchata, the Pin-tailed Sand-grouse) and Syrrhaptes.
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1783 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds II. ii. 751 Sand Grouse. Tetrao arenaria. This is bigger than the Partridge.
1864 Intellectual Observer IV. 197 The new British Sand-Grouse. (Pallas's Three-toed Sand-Grouse—Syrrhaptes paradoxus.)
1867 A. L. Adams Wanderings Naturalist India 119 The painted or lesser sand-grouse (Pterocles fasciatus).
1895 J. G. Millais Breath from Veldt ii. 20 In the early morning the Namaqua sandgrouse come to their margins..to drink.
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