Turkestan Ground Jay Podoces panderi, also known as Pander’s Ground Jay, is vagrant to Tianshan in Xinjiang. Distinguished from Mongolian Ground Jay P. hendersoni and Xinjiang Ground Jay P. biddulphi by sandy grey head and upperparts and by black patch centered between whitish throat and dull pink underparts. — Craig Brelsford
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Daniel Bengtsson served as chief ornithological consultant for Craig Brelsford’s Photographic Field Guide to the Birds of China, from which this species description is drawn.
