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brown and white, the latter the prevailing colour on the 
belly. Length 114 inches. Inhabits the banks of the 
Marikwa and Limpopo Rivers. 
This species I also found on the banks of Rivers near Port Natal. 
Perdiz Levalliantoides. Top of head black-brown, feathers 
edged with palerufous ; back of neck chesnut with black and 
white spots; backa dark, bright, red-brown, variegated with 
grey, pale rufous and black, each feather with a rusty white 
stripe in the course of shaft, which stripe is generally edged 
on each side by black; over and under each eye a mottled 
black and white band, each of which extends towards the 
middle of the throat, where they unite and form a large 
patch of the same character; breast and belly varied dark 
chesnut brown and pale buff, the latter colour is bounded 
partially with black or black-brown ; chin-white. Length 
1l{ inches. Inhabits the country towards sources of Orange 
River. 
Perdiz Sephaena. Top of head grey brown; neck chesnut, the 
feathers edged with white ; back pale chesnut, behind in- 
clining to brown, the feathers with a whitish stripe in the 
course of the shafts; chin, eyebrows, and a stripe under each 
eye white ; throat and breast yellow-white, each feather with 
a large, somewhat triangular, bright logwood coloured spot 
towards the point ; belly tawny yellow, finely mottled with 
white and brown irregular lines; under tail coverts buff; 
quills and tail dark brown. Length 12 inches. Inhabits 
the banks of the Marikwa and Limpopo Rivers. 
Perdix Coqui. Top of head chesnut, back and sides of neck 
rufous yellow; a black stripe over and another below each 
eye the former ending on side of neck, the latter uniting in 
front of the neck with the one of the opposite side; chin 
rusty white; body above pale rufous, feathers barred or 
irregularly spotted with deep brown, and each with a 
whitish line in the course of the shaft; breast a pale cinna- 
mon colour; belly with broad black and yellowish white 
bars. Length 9 inches. Inhabits dry flats, beyond 
Kurrichaine. 
The two first species of this Genus resemble in their plumage and 
manners the Francolins ; the three last the true Patridges. 
Genus Orryats. Il. 
Ortygis Lepurana. Top of head brown, with a narrow 
whitish stripe from bill to nape; back variegated fulvous and 
brown-black,the variegations in the form of waved and arched 
lines, on the middle of each feather ; the edges of feathers 
greyish ; chin and throat dull white ; centre of breast with a 
large pale cinnamon blotch ; sides of breast pale buff, with 
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