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THE PAINTED PARTRIDGE. 
Length, 11 to 13; expanse, 17 to 19°5 ; wing, 5°3 to 5'8 ; tail, 
26 to 355; tarsus, 15 to 1°75; bill from gape, 1 to 1:13; 
weight, 8%, to 12,4 oz. 
Bull blackish, paler at base beneath ; irides deep brown; legs 
reddish or yellowish-red. 
Neither sex have spurs. 
Forehead, lores, face, broad supercilium, and ear-coverts ferrugi- 
nous-chesnut ; the top of the head dark brown with pale edgings, 
the neck all round pale ferruginous ; the upper part of the back 
and scapulars deep brown ; the feathers edged laterally with creamy 
white, and this gradually passing into the markings of the wings, 
which are chesnut with black bands ; the lower back, rump, and 
upper tail-coverts, are beautifully marked with undulating lines of 
black and white ; tail deep brown, the feathers finely cross-barred at 
their base ; beneath, thethroatis white, with longitudinal dark lines ; 
the whole of the rest of the lower surface variegated black and 
white, each feather being white with two dark cross-bands, and _ the 
shaft and tip black ; these dark bands gradually narrow towards 
the vent ; under tail-coverts chesnut ; feathers of the flanks and 
sides of the rump are tinged with pale ferruginous. 
The female differs in having a somewhat ferruginous tinge 
beneath, and in the throat being more or less rufous. 
With the exception of Sind, the Painted Partridge occurs in all 
suitable localities throughout our limits. It is a permanent resi- 
dent, breeding towards the middle of the rains. The eggs, six or 
eight in number, are somewhat peg-top shape, and are smoky- 
white in color. They measure 1'4 inches in length by 1:18 in 
breadth. 
Genus, Caccabis, Kaup. 
Bill somewhat lengthened, stout, red; tarsi of male with a 
blunt spur, red ; tail of 12 or 14 feathers not quite concealed by 
the upper-coverts ; a small nude patch behind the eye ; plumage 
not mottled. 
Caccabis chukar, J. Z. Gr. 
820.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 564; Murray’s Verte- 
brate Zoology of Sind, p. 213; Game Birds of India, Vol. II, 
p: 33. 
THE CHUKOR PARTRIDGE. 
Chukor, Hin. 
d. Length, 14°25 to 15°75; expanse, 21°5 to 23:25; wing, 6:25 
to 68; tail, 4 to 49; tarsus, 16 to 19; bill from gape, 0:94 to 
1:2; weight, 19 to 27 oz. 
9. Length, 13:0 tol44; expanse, 20 to 21°3; wing, 5-9 to65; 
tail, 33 to 41; tarsus, 155 to 1°75; bill from gape, 0:94 to 1-1; 
weight, 13 to 19 oz. 
Bill crimson to deep coral-red, occasionally dusky on the cul- 
