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with black upon the sides, while the legs, feet, and 

 bill are bright red. The tail, rump, and secondaries, 

 ao;ain, shew the beautiful delicate barring seen in 

 those parts of the common francolin and painted par- 

 tridge. 



There is a small Indian group among the partridges 

 which also deserves notice. The wings are more 

 ample and rounded, the tail short, the body more 

 clumsy ; the bill and legs strong, and the feet large. 

 They inhabit principally the Indian islands, frequent- 

 ing the skirts of the mountain forests. The Perdix 

 Javanica of Latham, Perdix megapodia, Temminck, 

 and Perdix personata, Horsfield, are examples of 

 this form. Another form we noticed before was 

 the pheasant-like partridges of Africa, so similar to 

 the females of these birds, that, with the addition of 

 the tail, they might be passed off to an ordinary ob- 

 server. Perdix bicalcarata of Latham will exemplify 

 ^his. To these perhaps might also be added another 

 remarkable bird, the hackled partridge of Latham, of 

 which there seems an uncertainty regarding its na- 

 tive country. Dr Latham's bird was in the Leverian 

 Museum, and was supposed to have come from the 

 Cape of Good Hope ; while Temminck, upon the au- 

 thority of Sonnerat, makes it a native of Eastern 

 Asia. The most remarkable feature in the plumage 

 of this otherwise soberly dressed bird is in the feathers 

 on the back and sides of the neck arid upper part of 

 the back being of an inch and half long, and hackle- 

 shaped, as in the common cock, and in their colour 



