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brown and white, the latter the prevailing colour on the 

 belly. Length 11^ inches. Inhabits the banks of the 

 Marikwa and Limpopo Rivers. 

 This species I also found on the banks of Rivers near Port Natal. 



Perdix Levalliantoides, Top of head black-brown, feathers 

 ed ged with pale ruf ous ; back of neck chesnut with black and 

 white spots ; back a dark, bright, red-brown, variegated with 

 grey, pale rufous and black, each feather with a rusty white 

 stripe in the course of shaft, which stripe is generally edged 

 on each side by black ; over and under each eye a mottled 

 black and white band, each of which extends towards the 

 middle of the throat, where they unite and form a large 

 patch of the same character ; breast and belly varied dark 

 chesnut brown and pale buff, the latter colour is bounded 

 partially with black or black-brown ; chin white. Length 

 llf inches. Inhabits the country towards sources of Orange 

 Biver. 



Perdix Sephaena. Top of head grey brown ; neck chesnut, the 

 feathers edged with white ; back pale chesnut, behind in- 

 clining to brown, the feathers with a whitish stripe in the 

 course of the shafts ; chin, eyebrows, and a stripe under each 

 eye white ; throat and breast yellow- white, each feather with 

 a large, somewhat triangular, bright logwood coloured spot 

 towards the point ; belly tawny yellow, finely mottled with 

 white and brown irregular lines ; under tail coverts buff ; 

 quills and tail dark brown. Length 12 inches. Inhabits 

 the banks of the Marikwa and Limpopo Eivers. 



Perdix Coqui. Top of head chesnut, back and sides of neck 

 rufous yellow ; a black stripe over and another below each 

 eye the former ending on side of neck, the latter uniting in 

 front of the neck with the one of the opposite side ; chin 

 rusty white ; body above pale rufous, feathers barred or 

 irregularly spotted with deep brown, and each with a 

 whitish line in the course of the shaft ; breast a pale cinna- 

 mon colour ; belly with broad black and yellowish white 

 bars. Length 9 inches. Inhabits dry flats beyond 

 Kurrichaine. 



The two first species of this Genus resemble in their plumage and 

 manners the Francolins ; the three last the true Patridges. 



Genus OETYGIS. III. 



Ortygis Lepurana. Top of head brown, with a narrow 

 whitish stripe from bill to nape; back variegated fulvous and 

 brown-black,the variegations in the form of waved and arched 

 lines, on the middle of each feather ; the edges of feathers 

 greyish ; chin and throat dull white ; centre of breast with a 

 lame pale cinnamon blotch ; sides of breast pale buff, with 



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