PERDICIN&. 311 
Male, above pale isabella-brownish, finely freckled with dusky ; 
the crown of the head and cheeks grey ; forehead and a narrow 
line over the eye black; lores and ear-coverts silky-white, rufous 
posteriorly ; beneath this a narrow black line; rump and upper 
tail-coverts much speckled with black; primaries dusky within, 
isabella-brown on the outer webs, with dusky pencillings, and all 
but the first barred on their outer webs with whitish; tail 
chesnut-brown, paler at the tip, and freckled with black ; 
beneath, the throat is greyish-white, the breast delicate grey, 
and the sides of the neck grey with numerous white spots, 
and a few black specks; breast pale rufous isabelline or 
vinaceous; the feathers of the flanks whitish, tinged with vinace- 
ous, and dashed with rufous and dark-brown ; lower tail- 
coverts pale chesnut. 
The female wants the ashy crown of male, and is minutely 
mottled all over, both above and beneath. 
The Seesee is not uncommon in precisely the same localities 
as those frequented by C. chukar. 
It breeds at the same time, and in asimilar manner to that bird. 
The eggs are not unlike those of 0. pondiceriana, but are slightly 
polcr in color. They measure 1:36 inches in length by 11 in 
readth. 
Genus, Ortygornis, Reich. 
Bill lengthened, tip well turned over ; legs red, with one strong 
and sharp spur, occasionally two; tail rather short, of twelve 
feathers ; wings moderate. 
Ortygornis pondicerianus, Gin. 
899. Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 569 ; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 6 ; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, 
p. 422; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 214 ; Game 
Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 51; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central 
India; Ibis, 1885, p. 131. 
THE GREY PARTRIDGE. 
Titar, Hin. 
g. Length, 11:6 to 13-4; expanse, 17-4 to 205 wing, 5:3 to 6 ; 
tail, 3:35 to 4; tarsus, 14 to 17; bill from gape, 0:87 to 096 ; 
weight, 9 oz. to 12 oz. 
¢. Length, 102 to 11-9; expanse, 165 to 183; wing, 5 to 5°68; 
tail, 3:2 to 3°75; tarsus, 137 to 158; bill from gape, 0°75 to 
0°89 ; weight, 7 0z. to 11 oz. 
Bill dusky-brown or blackish, beneath paler ; irides dark- 
brown ; legs bright red. 
Head above olive-brown, rufous on the forehead over the eyes, 
and on the nape ; lores and face also rufous, with black specks ; 
ear-coverts silky hair-brown ; upper plumage, including the wing- 
coverts, upper tail-coverts, and central tail-feathers, speckled, 
brown, each feather being rich red-brown with three bars of 
