The Painted Sandgrouse is a ground-dwelling bird of dry, open country in India and northern Pakistan. Males have bold black-and-white bands, while females are finely mottled.
The male has a thick black bar across a white forehead and broad black-and-pale bands on the breast. Its brown back and wings have bold black-and-white bars; the female has fine brown barring and speckling over the body.
It lives in dry rocky scrub and open grassland, feeding mainly on wild seeds. It also eats grain and termites.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.