Field signs. Temya, upper back and shoulder feathers burovato-olive with golden-yellow spots and small black cross bars; lower back in the dark lateral strip, slit the throats of black and brown, across the chest dark ohristaya sling, restricted to the abdomen black and brown stripe. A female white throat, dorsal side in yellow and bluish-gray cross strip. Young bird feathers on the dorsal side with volnistymi dark concentric stripes and a light-yellow boundary kaemkami; central steering feathers, unlike the adult birds have not extended. Wing 189-214 mm (Ivanov, Shtegman, 1978). Distribution. Deserts (mostly hilly sands) south of Kazakhstan and Central Asia, north to the northern tip of the Aral Sea, south-western tip of Balkhash. Zaletnye poultry produced in the Caucasus, southern Ukraine, in the lower Volga and Orenburg (Ivanov , Shtegman, 1978). References. |
