310 PERDICIN &. 
men; irides yellowish or reddish-brown; legs and feet pale 
reddish. 
Plumage above pale-bluish or olive-ashy, washed with a rufous’ 
tinge ; lores black, and a white band behind the eye; ear-coverts 
rufous ; wings reddish-ashy, the coverts tipped with buff, and the 
primaries narrowly edged with the same ; tail ashy on the central 
feathers, the laterals tinged with rufous; face, chin, and throat, 
fulvous or rufous, surrounded by a black band which begins at the 
eye, and forms a sort of necklace round the throat ; below this 
the neck and breast are ashy, changing to buff on the abdomen 
and under tail-coverts; the flanks of the breast and belly beauti- 
fully banded, each feather being ashy at the base, with two large 
black bands, the terminal one tipped with fine maroon, and the 
space between the bands creamy-white. 
The female closely resembles the male, but is slightly smaller, 
and wants the spurs. 
Within our limits the Chukor only occurs on the rocky hills that 
divide Sind from Khelat. It is very common both in the Bolan 
Pass and on the Khoja Amran Range of mountains in Southern 
Afghanistan. 
I found them breeding near Chaman, about the end of March 
or early in April, There was no nest ; the eggs were deposited on 
the ground, ina depression under a bush. I never found more 
than eight eggs, but the Afghans asserted that they frequently lay 
twenty, and I have seen a hen with quite that number of chicks ; 
whether they were all her own or not, I cannot say. The eggs are 
somewhat peg-topped shape, of a pale stony color, speckled and 
blotched with lavender-brown, They average 1°61 inches in 
length by 1-4 in breadth. 
(seNus, Ammoperdix. 
Of small-size; bill somewhat lengthened, red; wings long ; 
tarsus wholly devoid of a spur or even of a knob, otherwise as in 
Cuccabis. 
Ammoperdix bonhami, Gray. 
821.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 567 ; Murray’s Vertebrate 
Zoology of Sind, p. 214; Game Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 45. 
THE SEESEE PARTRIDGE. 
Sist, Hin. 
3. Length, 9°5 to 11; expanse, 16 to 16°75; wing, 49 to 5°75; 
tail, 2 to 2°5; tarsus, 11 to 1:2; bill from gaape, 0°67 to 0°77 ; 
weight 7 to 8 oz. 
?. Length, 9 to 9°75; expanse, 15 to 1625; wing, 49 to 51; 
tail, 2 to 2°5; tarsus, 11 to 12; bill from gape, 0°62 to 0°71; 
weight, 53 to 8 oz. 
Bill orange or brownish orange-red, inclined to be dusky on 
culmen ; irides from bright yellow to orange-brown. 
