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Genus AMMOPERDIX, Gould, 1851. 



There are but two nearly allied species in the present genus. 

 One, A. heyi, is found in Arabia, Egypt, and ISfubia ; the other 

 ranges from the Euphrates to the Indus. Both are of small size, 

 and the sexes differ considerably in plumage. The tail is short, 

 about half as long as the wing, and slightly rounded, of 12 feathers. 

 Wing rounded ; 3rd primary usually longest ; 1st but little 

 shorter, and about equal to or between 5th and 6th. No spurs. 



1371. Ammoperdix bonhami. The Seesee. 



Perdix bonhami, Fraser, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 70. 



Ammoperdix bonhami, Gould, Birds Asia, vii, pi. 1 ; Adams, P. Z. S, 



1858, p. 503; Jerdon, B.I. iii, p. 567; Hume, S. F. i, p. 226; 



id. Cat. no. 821; Hume fy Marsh. Game B. ii, p. 45, pi.; 



Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 310 ; St. John, Ibis, 1889, p. 175 ; Oates 



in Hume's N. Sf E. 2nd ed. iii, p. 433 ; Oyilvie Grant, Cat. B. M. 



xxii, p. 123. 



The Seesee Partridge, Jerdon ; Sist, Punjab, Sind ; Tihu, P. 



Fig. '27. Head of A. louhami. \. 



Coloration. Male. A black frontal band carried back above each 

 eye and over the ear-coverts, succeeded below by a silky-white 

 band through the eye, including the lores and ear-coverts, and 

 terminating behind in a rufous patch ; below the white are traces 

 of a black streak ; crown and nape dull ashy g:rey, sides of neck 

 grey with white zigzag cross-bars ; hind neck and back similar, but 

 the bars overlaid and partially concealed by vinous red ; lower 

 back, wings, rump, upper tail-coverts, and middle tail-feathers 

 sandy grey finely vermiculated with buff, especially on the scapulars 

 and tertiaries, feathers of the lower back and rump with small 

 blackish arrowhead-shaped spots along the shafts ; primaries 

 brown, and, except the first, barred with buff on the outer web ; 

 secondaries brown, mottled with buff on the outer web arid some- 

 times on the inner near the shaft; outer tail-feathers brownish 

 chestnut, more or less pale-tipped ; chin whitish, passing into ashy 

 grey on the throat, cheeks, and fore neck ; breast vinous buff, 

 passing into yellowish buff on the abdomen and lower tail-coverts, 

 the feathers of the upper abdomen with rufous margins, those of 



