( 273 ) 



? Iris brown ; bill and legs i)iiik. 



This fine Partridge is usually met with among the foothills or in the rough 

 wadis. It seems to iirefer the open hillsides, and in the evening the male ma}' 

 constantly be seen perched on a projecting rock, where he remains calling for a 

 long time. It is a very difficult bird to flush, but, once on the wing, will fly for 

 a long distance before it again alights. The birds obtained in the wadis seem to 

 be smaller than those from the Abian hills — one bird measuring 19 in. from bill 

 to tail. The species was not seen at any great elevation. — A. B. P.] 



185. Caccabis chukar. 



Ciiccabis chulcar (G. R. Gray) ; Barnes, Ibi.i 1893, p. 160 ; Yerbury, Hih 1896, p. 31. 



If this species really occurs at Aden it is curious that it was not obtained during 

 the present expedition. 



18G. Ammoperdix heyi. 



Ammoperdij- heiji (Temm.); Grant, Cal. B. Brit. Miis. xxii. p. 93 (1893). 

 Ammoperdix hoiihami ; Barnes (nee Fraser), Ibis IS'J'd, p. 167 ; Yerbury, Ibis 18",I6, p. 3'2. 

 a. $ ad. Jebel Manif, N. of Lahej. August 14th. 



It is unfortunate that only a female was procured. The females of the 

 species oi Ammoperdix so closely resemble one another that it is imiwssible to 

 identify them with any certainty, and it must still remain somewhat doubtful 

 which species occurs in Southern Arabia. The bird from Aden, sent home by the 

 late Mr. Barnes to the Zoological Gardens on January 14th, 1892, was identified as 

 ^4. honhami. I never e.xamined this specimen, and there is now no record as to 

 whether it was male ovfertiale. I agree with Colonel Yerbury (cf Ibis 1806, p. 32) 

 in thinking that this bird must have been wrongly identified as A. bonhami. The 

 species found at Muscat is certainly A. heyi, for there are an adult pair in the 

 British Museum Collection. 



[At the foot of Jebel Blanif, near the only water in the district, 1 put up a covey 

 of eight of these birds, but only obtained one specimen. The bird is well known to 

 the native shikaris, who informed me that it is not common, but is occasionally seen 

 in the hills. At Ma'ir I saw two pairs, but was unable to get a shot at them. One 

 of my shikaris told me he saw this bird at Jimil. They are said to haunt the 

 camping grounds at the foot of the hills.— A. B. P.] 



187. Coturnix coturnix. 



Columui comiminis Bonnat. ; Yerbury, Ibis 1896, p. 32. 

 a. $ ad. Habil, Wadi Abrain, N.W. of Lahej. September 14th. 

 h. $ ad. Shaik Othman. September 21st. 



188. Coturnix delegorguei. 



Cotvmix delegorguei Deleg. ; Yetbury, Ibis I89C, p. 32. 



