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PEARLED P.
La Perdrix de la Chine, B rif orn. i. p. 234. 9. pi* 28. A. f. ft
——-— -----perlée de la'Chine, Buf. oif. ii. p. 446.
Tetrao Chinenfis, OJb, Voy. vol. ii. p. 326.
D escription» r p H I S is a trifle bigger, than the Common Partridge: length
twelve inches and a half. Bill blackilh, almoft an Inch
long : irides hazel : over the eye is a rufous ftripe, beginning at
the nodrils ; beneath this a broader ftreak of black, palling
through the eyes, and under the eye a white one ; befides which
is a fourth of black in the dire&ion of the under mandible:
the crown of the head is brown, minutely fpotted with white ;
the throat white : neck, breaft, belly, fides, and vent, brown,
marked with round fpots of rufous and white : back and rump
barred rufous and brown : quills browniih, crofted with arcuated
white bands : tail brown, tranfverfely ftreaked and tipped with
black : legs rufous : the legs of the male furnilhed with a fpur
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behind.
Inhabits China *. Drawn from the life by M. Poivre. The
Chinefe call it Tcbe-cou. The bird alluded to in Ojbeek feems
very like, if not the fame. He fays that the Chinefe of quality
make ufe of it, as well as the Common Quail, to warm their hands
in winter.
• Du Halde, in his Hiftory of China, talks of clouds of Partridges, being tfiott-
fands in a flock; and mentions alfo Sand Partridges: but as he deferibes
neither, we are in the dark in refpeft to the fpecies.
J ^ ENG TH thirteen inches. Bill an inch and a quartert the
upper mandible much fornicated» and hangs over the lower ;
the colour brown: the top o f the head is deep brown ; each feather
margined and ftriped with cream-colour : Tides of the neck
rufty cream-colour» tipped with dulky : over each eye an elegant
ftripe» minutely dotted with black and white: chin, and fore part
of the neck, marked in the fame elegant manner : the upper
part of the body brown,, eroded with narrow lines of duIky
cream-colour, and marked down each lhaft like the back of a
Quail: the bread and lides are mottled with ferruginous,, chefnut,.
dulky, and dirty white; but the middle of the belly marked only
with the two laft: the quills are dulky : the tail deeper, eroded
with white lines : the legs are furnilhed with a Ihort thick fpur,
and are of a brown colour.
This was fent from the Cape o f Good Hope to Sir Jofeph Banks.
It is a mod beautiful fpecies.
La Perdrix de Gingi, Son. Foy. Ind. vol. ii. p. 167.
L E S S than the Common Partridge, Bill black : irides yellow :
top of the head deep brown : from the bill a white line
paffes over the eye almoft to the hind head; each feather which
forms this line has a ftripe of black on i t : the throat is pale
rufous: neck and cheeks the fame, with a longitudinal ftreak of
black on each feather: on the bread are two fpots,. one black,
the other chefnut, feparated from each other by a white one :
back dirty rufous grey : leffer wing coverts chefnut,. edged with
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