Other Names (World)
Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse, Indian Sandgrouse, Common Indian Sandgrouse, Small Pin-tailed Sandgrouse, Lesser Pin-tailed Sandgrouse
Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse (Pterocles exustus) [XC308187]
by AUDEVARD Aur\u00e9lien from Desert National Park, Thar Desert, near Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India (flight call)
Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse (Pterocles exustus) [XC277095]
by Hans Matheve from Aledeghe WIldlife Reserve, Ethiopia (call)
Subspecies
The following 6 subspecies are recognised:
exustus Temminck, 1825 - Mauritania and Senegambia east to Sudan.
floweri! Nicoll, 1921 - Nile Valley in central Egypt (almost certainly extinct).
ellioti Bogdanov, 1881 - South-eastern Sudan east to Eritrea, northern Ethiopia and Somalia.
olivascens (Hartert, 1909) - Southern Ethiopia, Kenya and northern Tanzania.
erlangeri (Neumann, 1909) - Western and southern Arabian Peninsula.
hindustan Meinertzhagen, R, 1923 - South-eastern Iran, Pakistan and most of India.