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Chestnut-bellied
Sandgrouse |
Pterocles
exustus |
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3rd
Feb, 2007 |
| Possible
regional races (polytypic)
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| -P. e. hindustan |
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| Pterocles exustus hindustan |
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A permanent resident, widely spread throughout the country, and breeding
in most places; excluding the extreme southern portions of the continent,
Malabar, Lower Bengal, Assam and Burmah, it occurs almost everywhere
in the plains, where the country is open and dry. As a straggler it
has occurred, as recorded by Dr. King, even close to Calcutta, but
as a rule it absolutely avoids damp soils and densely-wooded or hilly
tracts, and is most abundant in sparsely cultivated, and unirrigated,
but yet not wholly deserts tracts.
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