40. THE TIBETAN PARTRIDGE. 



Perdix hodgsonice^ (Hodgson). 



First ten quills of the wing barred on 



both webs with rufous. 

 Tail largely chestnut. 



Sexes alike. 



Vernacular Names :— None known. 



The true home of the Tibetan Partridge 

 is Tibet, and this bird rarely enters British 

 territory. Messrs. Hume and Marshall 

 thus give its distribution in the Hima- 

 layas : " The Tibetan Partridge only just 

 crosses from Chinese Tibet into our 

 territories. The first specimen, indeed, 

 ever shot by an European was killed by 

 Mr. Wilson in the autumn of 1841, when 

 shooting Chukor in the fields near Sukhi, 

 a village high up in the valley of the 

 Bhagirathi and near the snowy range in 

 which, a few marches eastwards, Gangotri 

 is situated. But it has never since been 

 met with on the southern side of the first 

 snowy range, though year after year Mr. 

 Wilson hunted for it in this same locality. 

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