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upper plumage brown, with little or no chestnut on the scapulars 

 and tertiaries, the upper back and scapulars with ill-defined pale 

 spots and bars, and whitish shafts ; the lower back, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts vermiculated with buff and with narrow sub- 

 distant buff and broad dark brown cross-bands ; chin and throat 

 sullied white ; breast and abdomen buff, deeper posteriorly, barred 

 with dark brown, the bars farther apart behind, middle of lower 

 abdomen unbarred and passing into dull chestnut on the lower 

 tail-coverts. 



Bill dark blackish brown; irides light reddish hazel; eyelids 

 pale greenish: legs orange (Oates). The male has large spurs. 



Length 13; tail 3; wing 5'75 : tarsus 1-7; bill from gape 1. 

 The female is a little smaller. 



Distribution. South China, Cochin China, Siam, and parts of 

 Burma. This Partridge is common in parts of the Irrawaddy 

 Valley, north of Prome, and was found in Karennee by Major 

 "VVardlaw-Bamsay. Specimens are in the British Museum labelled 

 Toungngoo and Thouuggyen valley. 



Habits, $r. Very similar to those of the last two species. This 

 Erancolin is found in forest-clearings, bamboo jungle, and waste 

 land. The breeding-season in Burma is in June and July ; the 

 eggs, sometimes 8 in number, are pale buff, and are laid on the 

 ground. They measure about 1-5 by 1-2. 



1375. Francolinus pondicerianus. The Grey Partridge. 



Tetrao pondicerianus, Gin. Syst. Nat, i, 2, p. 760 (1788). 

 Francolinus pondicerianus, Steph. in Skaiv's Gen. Zool. xi, p. 321 ; 



Offilvie Grant, Ibis, 1892, p. 40 ; id. Cat. B. M. xxii, p. 141. 

 Perdix orientalis, Gray in Hardw. 111. 2nd. Zool. i, pi. 56, fig. 2 



(1830-32). 



Perdix ponticeriana, JBli/th, Cat. p. 252. 

 Ortvgornis ponticeriana, Jerdon, B. 1. iii, p. 569 ; Hume, S. F. i, 



p". 227 ; Ball, S. F. vii, p. 225. 

 Ortvgornis pondicerianus, Hume, N. # E. p. 542 ; Hume fy Marsh. 



Game B. ii, p. 51, pi.: iii, p. 434; Hume, Cat. no. 822; Leyc/e, 



Birds Ceyl. p. 748 : Butler, 8. F. ix, p. 422 ; Reid, S. F. x, p. 62 ; 



Daw'son, ibid. p. 410 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 311 ; Oates in Humes 



N. 8f E. 2nd ed. iii, p. 435. 



Titar, Ram-titar, Gora-titar, Safed-titar, H. ; Jirufti, P. ; Khyr, 

 J5eng., Uriya ; Gowjal-huki, Can. ; Kondari, Tarn. ; Kawunzu, Tel. ; 

 Oussa-watuwa, Cing. 



Coloration. Crown and nape brown, forehead rufous, super- 

 ciliary band and sides of head pale rufous, speckled with black on 

 the lores and below the eye ; ear-coverts darker and browner ; 

 back, scapulars, and wing-coverts light greyish brown, mixed with 

 chestnut, banded transversely, rather distantly, with buffy white, 

 the borders of the white bands dark brown, shafts of the feathers 

 whitish, especially on the scapulars and coverts; quills brown, 

 outer webs frequently with whitish spots, secondaries banded with 

 whitish ; upper tail-coverts and middle tail-feathers brown, finely 

 vermiculated with buff, and with buffy-white cross-bars having 



