66 INTRODUCED BIRDS. 
42. PHASIANUS TORQUATUS. Gml. 
Chinese Pheasant. 
Top of head, brown; neck, and tuft on either side of head, metallic 
green and blue ; a white ring on the back of the neck ; back, buff, varied 
with black and rufous ; over the tail, greyish ; sides, buff, with black 
spots ; breast, chestnut brown, varied with black. 
Female.—Brown, varied with blackish brown. 
igige as We lis We, LO 5B., 1-255; 2 
email. 22 2) We, 0; B. 1123 Ps, 2: 
Egg.—Brownish olive ; length, 1:65 ; breadth, 1-33. 
All the Provinces. From China. 
TETRAONID 4. 
For characters, see ante, p. 22. 
43. PERDIX CINEREA. Briss. 
Partridge. 
Brown, pencilled with black and streaked with chestnut on the back ; 
abdomen, whitish ; throat and breast, grey, with a chestnut horse-shoe 
mark on the breast of the male. 
leo Ws, 60-2 Mas iiones (he deb; 
Egg.—FPale greenish brown ; length, 1°d; breadth, 1-1. 
Auckland, Canterbury, and Otago. From England. 
44. PERDIX PETROSA. Meyer. 
Barbary Partridge. 
Axpove, brown; throat, and a streak over the eye, grey ; side of the 
neck, chestnut, spotted with white ; below, yellowish white, with bars of 
black and brown on the flanks. 
i 1b 3.3) W.,. 6. 
Lgg.—Dirty yellow, spotted all over with brownish green. 
Auckland ; two only. From North Africa. 
45. COTURNIX AUSTRALIS. Lath. 
Tasmanian Quail. 
FoREHEAD and throat, buffy white ; above, chestnut, striped with black 
and varied with grey ; below, buffy grey, with zigzag markings of black, 
and finely striped with white ; shoulders, greyish brown ; quills, brown, 
mottled on the outer edges with greyish. 
