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Definition of Pin-tailed sandgrouse
1. Noun. Sandgrouse of Europe and Africa having elongated middle tail feathers.
Generic synonyms: Sand Grouse, Sandgrouse
Group relationships: Genus Pterocles, Pterocles
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pin-tailed Sandgrouse
Literary usage of Pin-tailed sandgrouse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Eastern Persia: An Account of the Journeys of the Persian Boundary by WILLIAM THOMAS. BLANFORD, Beresford Lovett, India. Persian Boundary Commission (1876)
"So far as I know, I did not once see the large pin-tailed sandgrouse, and I doubt
if it breeds in Southern Persia. Major St. John informs me that he has ..."
2. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society by Bombay Natural History Society (1889)
"Of the pin-tailed sandgrouse (P. alchata) I only saw one flock, and that was
quite close to the Fort. They were the first that I had ever seen, ..."
3. Provence & Côte D'Azur by Richard Sale (1999)
"... and short-toed eagles, Montagu's harrier, the calendre lark, black-eared
wheatear, pin-tailed sandgrouse and the beautiful cream-bibbed pratincole. ..."
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