310 PERDICIN^E. 



men ; irides yellowish or reddish-brown ; legs and feet pale 

 reddish. 



Plumage above pale-bluish or olive-ashy, washed with a rufous 

 tinge ; lores black, and a white band behind the eye ; ear-coverts 

 rufous ; wings reddish-ashy, the coverts tipped with buff, and the 

 primaries narrowly edged with the same ; tail ashy on the central 

 feathers, the laterals tinged with rufous ; face, chin, and throat, 

 fulvous or rufous, surrounded by a black band which begins at the 

 eye, and forms a sort of necklace round the throat ; below this 

 the neck and breast are ashy, changing to buff on the abdomen 

 and under tail-coverts ; the flanks of the breast and belly beauti- 

 fully banded, each feather being ashy at the base, with two large 

 black bands, the terminal one tipped with fine maroon, and the 

 space between the bands creamy-white. 



The female closely resembles the male, but is slightly smaller, 

 and wants the spurs. 



"Within our limits the Chukor only occurs on the rocky hills that 

 divide Sind from Khelat. It is very common both in the Bolan 

 Pass and on the Khoja Amran Range of mountains in Southern 

 Afghanistan. 



I found them breeding near Chaman, about the end of March 

 or early in April. There was no nest ; the eggs were deposited on 

 the ground, in a depression under a bush. I never found more 

 than eight eggs, but the Afghans asserted that they frequently lay 

 twenty, and I have seen a hen with quite that number of chicks ; 

 whether they were all her own or not, I cannot say. The eggs are 

 somewhat peg-topped shape, of a pale stony color, speckled and 

 blotched with lavender-brown. They average 1*61 inches in 

 length by 1*4 in breadth. 



GENUS, Ammoperdix. 



Of small-size ; bill somewhat lengthened, red ; wings lon ; 

 tarsus wholly devoid of a spur or even of a knob, otherwise as in 

 Caccabis. 



Ammoperdix bonhami, Gray. 



821. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 567; Murray's Vertebrate 

 Zoology of Sind, p. 214 ; Game Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 45. 



THE SEESEE PARTRIDGE. 

 Sisi, Hin. 



<J. Length, 9'5 to 11 ; expanse, 16 to 1675 ; wing, 4'9 to 575 ; 

 tail, 2 to 2-5; tarsus, 11 to 1'2 ; bill from gaape, 0'67 to 077 ; 

 weight 7 to 8 oz. 



? . Length, 9 to 975 ; expanse, 15 to 16'25 ; wing, 4'9 to 51 ; 

 tail, 2 to 2-5 ; tarsus, 11 to 1'2 ; bill from gape, 0'62 to 071 ; 

 weight, 5} to 8 oz. 



Bill orange or brownish orange-red, inclined to be dusky on 

 culmen ; irides from bright yellow to orange-brown. 



