150 ALLEN'S naturalist's LIBRARY. 



and the horse-shoe patch on the breast black. Total length, 

 11-5 inches; wing, 6 ; tail, 3-5 ; tarsus, 1-5. 



Adult Female. — Differs from the male in having less buff on 

 the breast, and the black patch on the breast much reduced 

 in size, or absent. Smaller; wing, 5-6 inches. 



Eange. — North-eastern and Central Asia, extending north 

 to Dauria, east to Amoorland, Manchuria, and the mountains 

 near Pekin, west to Dzungaria and the Tian-shan Mountains, 

 and south to the sources of the Yans-tze-kianof. 



B. Tail with sixteen feathers ; chest and bj-east barred with 

 black. 



III. MRS. Hodgson's partridge, pkrdix hodgsoni^e. 

 Sacfa hodgsonice, Hodgson, J. As. Soc. Beng. xxv. p. 165, pi. 



(1857). 

 Perdix hodgsonice, Gould, B. Asia, vi. pi. 74 (1857); Hume 

 and Marshall, Game Birds of India, p. 65, pi. (1879); 

 Oates, ed. Hume's Nests and Eggs Ind. B. iii. p. 438 

 (1890); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 193 



(1893)- 



Adult Male and Female. — Forehead with a black and a white 

 band, the fore-part of the crown chestnut ; a rufous-chestnut 

 collar \ mantle grey, shading into brownish-grey on the rest of 

 the upper-parts, and all barred with black and rufous-buff; wings 

 very similar to those of the male of P. perdix., but brighter ; 

 cheeks, chin, and middle of throat white, the feathers of the 

 latter rather long, but shorter than in P. daurica; a large black 

 patch covering the hinder part of the cheeks and side of the 

 throat ; under-parts white, barred with black, and with a large 

 black patch oji the middle of the breast. Total length, 1 1 -5 

 inches; wing, 6-2 ; tail, -^'d'y tarsus, 17. 



Range. — Southern Tibet, just extending into Northern India, 

 in Cashmere, Gurhwal, Kumaon, and Sikhim. 



Habits. — This species inhabits the desolate hillsides and 



