9. PERDIX. 193 



Perdix daurica, David, N. Arch. Mus. Bull. iii. p. 38 (1867) [Mon- 

 ifolia and Mts. near Pekin] ; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotnie, p. 68 

 (187;5); id. J.f. O. 1875, p. 181 [Turkestan]; Pleske, M6m. Ac. 

 St. ntersh. (7) xxxvi. no. 3, p. 47 (188S). 



Starna daurica, Bogd. Consp. Av. Imp. Ross. fasc. i. p. 41 (1884) 

 [Dauria, Dzungaria, Kuldja, Tian-shan]. 



Adult male. The general colour above resembles that of P. perdix, 

 but is paler, and the colour of the back and sides of the neck and 

 upper back is greyer, while the subterrainal chestnut cross-bars on 

 the back are darker and as strongly defined as on the riimp and 

 upper tail-coverts. A narrow black band across the front of the 

 forehead between the nostrils ; ear-coverts brown, tipped with 

 whitish ; below the eye a whitish patch narrowly edged beneath 

 with black ; forehead, lores, wide superciliary stripes, and the fore 

 part of the cheeks rufous buff: feathers on the sides of the chin 

 and throat similar in colour but considerably elongated, and with 

 dark shafts; middle of chin and throat paler; hind part of the 

 cheeks and sides of the neck grey ; sides of the chest and breast 

 grey, finely vermiculatcd with black, middle bright buff, followed by 

 a large black horseshoe-shaped patch ; belly, thighs, and under tail- 

 coverts M-hitish ; sides and flanks dirty white, each with a sub- 

 terminal chestnut cross-bar. Two middle pairs of tail-feathers and 

 the terminal part of the third pair whitish, with wavy bars and 

 vermiculations of black ; remainder of the feathers chestnut, more 

 or less tipped with white, and with an ill-defined darker chestnut 

 subterminal baud. Total lengtli 11-5 inches, wing 6, tail 3-5, 

 tarsus 1-5. 



A yoiintj male has the sides and back of the neck and mantle 

 brownish white, with spots and shaft-stripes of whitish ; the upper 

 parts are more coarsely marked than in the adult, and the black 

 horscslioe mark much reduced. 



Adidt ftmalc. Appears to differ from the male in having the 

 black horseshoe much reduced or absent, and there is much less 

 bright buff on the chest and breast ; there is also a chestnut patch 

 on the cheek below the eye. Total length 1 1 inches, wing 5- (5, tail 3, 

 tarsus 1-4. 



Ilab. Xorth-eastern and Central Asia, ranging north to Dauria, 

 eastwards to Amoorland, Mantchuria, and the mountains near Pekin, 

 westwards to D/.ungaria and the Tian-shan Mountains, and south- 

 wards to the souires of the Yangtze-kiang. 



a-d. cJ ? ad. sk. Dauria. Gould Coll. 



et St. 

 e. (J imm. sk. South Mantchuria. II. M. .Tames, Esq. [P.]. 



/. Juv. sk. Kau^n (Grnin-Grzitnailo). St. Petersburg Museum 



[E.]. 



3. Perdix hodgsoniaB. 

 Sncfa hod}rsoni.Tp. Hodgson, J. As. Sue. Beng. .\xv. p. 165, pi. (1857) 



[T.snng, Thibet]. 

 Perdix hodsrsonia", Gould, B. A.^ia, vi. pi. 74 (1857) ; Adams, P. Z. S. 



1859. p. 185 [Nobra, N. of Ladak] : Leadb. P.Z.S. 1861, p. 198 



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