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THE PAINTED PARTRIDGE. 



across, and a line along the patches, those at the end 

 have the extremity with a black margin. The up- 

 per part of the back and wings deep brown, with 

 round spots of yellowish white, and with the margins 

 of the feathers wood-brown; the lower part of the 

 back and rump transversely barred with black and 

 white ; quills barred with hair-brown and pale red- 

 dish-orange ; upper tail-coverts brown, delicately 

 waved with irregular bars of black and white. Tail 

 brownish-black, with narrow white bars, principally 

 at the base of the feathers ; vent and under tail co- 

 verts deep orange-brown. 



