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with dry bents. It was in the midst of 

 grass about two feet high which was 

 growing amongst thin scrub-jungle. When 

 the nest was first found the bird rose from 

 the eggs within a yard of us, and was 

 snared at the nest about two hours later. 

 The eggs are broad ovals conspicuously 

 pointed towards the small end ; the shell 

 is extremely fine, compact and close, and 

 has a fine gloss, at any rate a fair amount 

 of gloss. The colour is pure spotless 

 white. They measure from 1*46 to 1*52 

 in length and from 1*13 to 1*19 in 

 breadth." 



This Partridge resembles Blyth's Hill- 

 Partridge very closely. The present 

 species, however, has a black throat, 

 followed by a chestnut band, to which 

 succeeds the grey of the breast. The 

 black band below the chestnut of the 

 foreneck, always present in Himalayan 

 examples of Blyth's Hill-Partridge, is 

 absent in the Arrakan Hill-Partridge. 



The present Partridge resembles the 

 preceding species in size. 



