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with in cultivation on the borders of grass jungle when feeding 

 in the mornings and evenings. The call of this fine Partridge 

 resembles that of the last species. Very little is known of the 

 breeding ; five pale creamy (cafe-au-lait), slightly speckled eggs 

 were taken by Mr. Rainey in Jessore on April 13th on the ground 

 in grass jungle, in a rather neatly constructed grass nest. These 

 eggs measure about 1-47 by 1-2. Five eggs, half incubated, were 

 also taken by Mr. Cripps in Assam on April 12th. 



This bird is usually shot from elephants, but I have shot it on 

 foot in grass 3 or 4 feet high near Colgong. For the table it much 

 resembles F. pondicerianus. 



Genus PEBDIX, Brisson, 1760. 



The common European Partridge is the type of this genus, 

 in which are also included three Central Asiatic species; one of 

 these inhabits Tibet and occurs just within Indian limits. 



The tail is of 16 or 18 feathers (16 in the Tibetan species), rather 

 more than half the length of the wing and slightly rounded. The 

 4th primary is usually the longest. There is no spur on the tarsus 

 in either sex. 



1377. Perdix hodgsoniae. The Tibetan Partridge. 



Sacfa hodgsoniae, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. xxv, p. 165, pi. (1857). 



Perdix hodjrsoniae, Gould, Birds Asia, vi, pi. 74 ; Adams, P. Z. S. 

 1858, p. 503 ; 1859, p. 185 ; Cock $ Marsh. S. F. i, p. 349 ; Hume, 

 N. $ E. p. 544 ; id. S. F. vii, p. 432 ; id. Cat. no. 823 bis ; Hume 

 Sf Marsh. Game B. ii, p. 65, pi. ; iii, p. 434, pi. iii (egg) ; Oates 

 in Hume's N. $ K 2nd ed. iii, p. 438 ; Off il vie Grant, Cat. B. M. 

 xxii, p. 193. 



Sakpha, Tibetan. 



Coloration. Sinciput chestnut ; occiput and nape brown, each 

 feather with a triangular buff terminal spot ; forehead buffy white, 

 edged with black in front and behind ; lores, supercilia, and cheeks 

 also buffv white ; a large black spot below the eye, with a white 

 band behind it that merges into the buff throat and chin ; the 

 sides of head and throat bordered by a broken black band ; ear- 

 coverts brown ; hind neck and sides of neck dull chestnut, forming 

 a collar ; back and rump buffy grey, the upper back distinctly barred 

 transversely with blackish brown, but farther back the bars are 

 scattered and the feathers vermiculated with black; scapulars, 

 wing-coverts, and tertiaries mixed grey and dark chestnut or black, 

 with buff transverse bars and with conspicuous white or buff black- 

 edged shaft-stripes ; quills brown, with rather irregular transverse 

 buff bars, rufous buff on the inner webs, secondaries with buffy 

 white shaft-stripes ; middle tail-feathers whitish with very wavy 

 and irregular black cross-bands, outer tail-feathers chestnut wit'h 

 the tips buff, spotted with black ; breast buffy white, each feather 

 with a subterminal black bar, a patch of feathers in the middle of 

 the lower surface black with whitish edges ; flanks buff, broadly 



