SYNOIC'^§ SORDIDUS, Gould.
Sombre Partridge.
•“ • i (i «n,»( ould m Pi .l* oI 7onl'Sv< ''V ir XV.
With the exception of S . Sinensis, this s j£ c S& the least ptthe genii] yet di4ov%'ed;ri t moreover differs
f rom ;th e ^ lin M M SBM oftwiv v u rn d ^K k iiS jn In dot v-Jw.Ii 1 rhe fi.ilhers of M upper surtiie
have abroad’ MuisVig ^ B -ipe^down th. “middle "in- rhi* hlu.e colouring affinity to the
S . Sinensis, and in ^|mp«bility other species mlcnnuliuii htt’ve. n i|K- two .will yet be discovered.
Two specimens arg all that have Gonje'Tiiidtir myf-notice; both ufwhich were received from South
Aiistr^iai ^ ^
Its habits doubtless re s 'em h l'e ^ e o f fth e 'o th e r members of the genus» but nothing is at present known
'rejpe^tiiig them.
■ General plumage dark brown,- minutely freckled with black, each feather of the upper and under surface
with a broad stripe of bluish jg p y down“ ther centre; feathers of the h e a ^ ^ r i^ jS k of the
spot o f blackish brown at the tip, those down the qeptire^OT' the head and aYe^l of^the back-feathers wit|^
w t e shafts fc h in buff; flanj^featherswith an arrow-head-shaped mark of black near S e t i f ’
The figures are of the natural size.