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NAMAQUA G
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P emaxe.
Bird : the legs are pale brown, feathered on the fore part as the
laft, and the hind toe fmall, and placed above the heel.
This inhabits Senegal, and feems a variety of the laft-,
deferibed.
I have feen two fpecimens, both of which differed only in having
a rufous band on the breaft, and the colours, though exaftly
the fame, much duller than in the Planches Enluminées.
R.
'• JT ESS than a Partridge: length nine inches *. Bill dufky blue:
head, neck, and breaft, cinereous grey, verging to rufous
about the Tides of the head and throat : on the upper part of the
breaft a narrow crefcent of white ; beneath this a broader one of
chocolate-brown ; from thence to the thighs a very deep alh-
colour, almoft black : lower belly, thighs, and vent, pale cinereous
white : back and upper parts chocolate brown, the margins
of the feathers darkeft: leffer wing coverts white, margined with
chocolate ; the greater ones of this laft colour, paler at the ends ;
the tip of each feather marked with a blueilh fpot : quills dulky j
the tips of the fecondaries white within, and the lhafts of the
greater white : tail very cuneiform; the two middle feathers pointed
as in the Pin-tailed Grous -, all the others tipped with white : legs
feathered on the fore part to the toes, of a blueilh alh-colour,
and furnilhed with a fmall fpur behind, placed inwards : the toes
black.
The female has the head and neck as in the male, a little
ftreaked with black : the upper parts of the body teffellated with
black, white, and rufous : belly tranfverfely ftriated with black
and white : in other things as in the male, except that the legs
are deftitute of fpurs.
* It is of that iize and length in the drawing.
Thefe
Thefe inhabit the country of the Namaqua Hottentots, and in
the day-time frequent the thirfty defarts; but are eafily Ihot, by
watching near the fountains, where fometimes three hundred will
come at once to drink,, water being very rare in thofe parrs.
Thefe make long flights, like Pigeons-, and their note is different
from any of the Grous tribe. They feed on the feeds of plants:■
will alfo eat corn. Known in the parts they frequent by the
name of Namaqua Partridges.
From the papers of Sir Jofeph Banks..
Tetrao arenaria, N. C. Petr. xix. p. 418. pi. g. (p , s% p anasj_
T H I S 15 bigger than the Partridge: length more than nineteen
inches.. Bill blue grey; tip black: head pale alh-colour;
crown and nape clouded yellowilh grey : chin deep yellow, terminated
by a triangular black mark about the middle of the
neck : the feathers o f the throat and neck grey, Angularly truncated,
and gloffy like thofe of a Dove: the upper parts of the
neck and body teftaceous white; each feather furrounded with a
brown border,, encircling an oval yellowilh fpot; on the lower
part of the neck a crelcent of black : the breaft is white: belly,
vent,, and thighs, black : wings hoary, with a deep yellow lpot
on the fecondaries: quills brownilh, obliquely white at the bafe,:
the tail has lixteen feathers; the two-middle ones pointed, and-
yellowilh, croffed with brown lines ;. the others brown with grey
lines; the tips white: legs llender, feathered to the toes ; which
are ihort, naked,, and callous beneath : claws black : behind
is a fpur, which turns inwards, and is prominent, and pointed.
Thee
Place and
Mastne&s.
16,
SAND GRi
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