264 PHASIANID^. 



middle of belly buff, each feather with a black terminal si)ot, much 

 reduced in old examples ; sides and flanks like the back ; under tail- 

 coverts the same, but more mixed with black. Upper tail-coverts 

 and tail black, slightly glossed with purplish green. Legs and feet 

 grey ; bill blackish horn ; lower mandible paler. Total length 

 13*6 inches, wing 6-2, tail 4-8, tarsus 1-5. 



Immature males differ from the above in having the greater part 

 of the wing-coverts and scapulars brownish black, glossed with 

 purplish green, and the chest and breast much more heavily spotted 

 ■with black. 



Adult female. Top of the head black, with chestnut shaft-stripes ; 

 neck and upper parts of the body dull olive-brown, most of the 

 feathers narrowly margined with dusky ; lores, superciliary stripes, 

 and cheeks mostly dark chestnut ; chin and throat chestnut or 

 chestnut mixed with buff, with a rather clearly marked buff band 

 on each side ; chest and breast ochraceous brown, shading into dull 

 olive-brown on the lower parts, most of the feathers with a small 

 blackish terminal spot or margin. Quills and tail as in the adult 

 male. Total length 12"6 inches, wing 5"9, tail 4*4, tarsus 1"4. 



Immature females have the plumage of the upper parts finely 

 mottled and irregularly barred with chestnut and black ; the outer 

 secondaries and tail-feathers are more distinctly barred. 



In still younc/er examples the breast and mantle are spotted 

 with buff. 



Hab. Peninsula of India. 



a, b. 5 ad. et India. India Museum [P.]. 



imm. sk. 



c,d.S2 ad sk. N.W India. Capt. S. Pinwill[P.]. 



e. J ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



[P.]. 



/. § ad. sk. Parisnath Hills. Hume Coll. 



g. (S ad. sk. Jubbulpur Dist. Tweeddale CoU. 



h-r. (S ? ad. sk. Eaipur, Jan. Hume Coll. 



s-«<'.cJ ?ad.,imni., Raipur. Hume Coll. 



juv. et pull. sk. 



v'-y'. (S 2 '^^- 6t Seoni. Hume Coll. 



pull. sk. 



z'. c? ad. sk. Madras. Hume Cull. 



a". (S imm. sk. Metupallium, Sept. (i?. G. Tweeddale Coll. 



W. R.). 



b". c? ad. sk. Coonoor, Nov. W. Davison, Esq. 



i 



[P.]. 



3. Gallop erdix bicalcarata. 



Perdix bicalcaratus, Penn. Ind. Zool. p. 40, pi. vii. (1769). 



Perdix zeylouensis, Gm. S. N. i. pt. ii. p. 7.59 (1788) ; Bonnat. 



Encyd.'Meth. i. p. 210, pi. 93. fig. 3 (1791). 

 Perdix ceylonensis, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 644 (1790) ; Temm. Pig. 



et Gall. iii. pp. 311, 718 (1815). 

 Cevlon Partridge, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 278 (1802) ; id. Gen. 



Hist. vlii. p. 208 (1823). 



