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D escription.
dirty rufous grey, and a fpot of the fame near the tip of each ;
the middle ones are chefnut alfo, edged with dirty yellow, with
a round Ipot of black at the end of each; fecond quills much
the fame s greater ones blackilh brown: rump and tail dirty
rufous grey, with a fpot of black on each feather in the fhape
of a ’Tare : belly white, with two longitudinal pale chefnut bands
on each feather : legs rufous yellow.
The female is fmaller. The top and hind part of the head dirty
grey : throat, and fore part of the neck, deep brown: on the
top of the bread a large grey fpot, all the feathers of which are
undulated with lines of black : Tides of the belly chefnut: the
belly itfelf pale rufous: Tides of the bread fpotted with black :
the wing coverts dirty grey for three-fourths of their length,
eroded by undulated black lines 5 at the end a deep chefnut fpot,
with a fpot of white on each web above i t : the fecond quills
dirty grey, edged with rufous yellow, and a round Ipot of the
fame on the inner web near the end : rump and tail rufous grey,
eroded with black lines: legs dirty grey.
This fpecies is found in the neighbourhood of Gingi, on the
coad of Coromandel.
La Perdrix de Pondichery, Son. Voy. Ind. W. p. 165«
C I Z E of the Common Partridge. Bill dulky : irides red : top
of the head dull rufous grey : round the bill yellowilh :
throat the fame ; the lower feathers tipped with black: hind part
of the neck greyilh, banded with black ; the lower part of it, and
the back, rufous, banded with white : bread pale rufous, undulated
with black : belly white, eroded with femicircular black
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bands; fides of it fpotted with rufous red: lefier quills much
the fame, banded with rufous white; the greater of a very deep
dirty grey: rump grey, eroded with dirty white bands, bordered
with black lines on each fide : the two middle tail feathers
rufous, eroded with numerous zig-zag lines of brown, and four
yellowifh white bands on each j the red of the feathers bright
brownilh red, banded on the inner webs with black : the male
has a very drong fpur.
Inhabits the coad of Coromandel.
Javan Partridge, Brovin. Illuft. p. 40. pi. 17.
jP H E forehead of this bird is orange : crown deep alh-eolour,
bounded behind with an orange fpot: cheeks blade, bounded
on each fide by a band of orange riling from each fide of the
chin: back and bread cinereous, marked with dulky femilunar
lpots ; wing coverts, fcapulars, and fecondaries, black and cinereous,
edged with yellow:. primaries grey, edged with black r
tail cinereous, with femilunar marks of black : belly dull orange :
vent red, crofied with a band of alh-colour and black : legs fielh-
eolour.
Inhabits the illand of Java.
LaPerdrixde Moirtagne du Mexique, Brif. orn. i. p. 226. y.
Le Rollier du Mexique, Brif. orn. ii. p. 84. N° 10.
Ococolin, feu Perdix montana, HemanJ.— Rail Sjn. p. 57. 1 .— Buf. oif. ii;
p. ifitj.— Seha, i, p. 100. pi. 64. f. 1.
S is much larger than the Common Partridge r length
twenty-one inches. Bill pale red: irides black: general
colour
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