160 Manual of the Game Birds of India. 



In the female the chin and throat are 

 whitish and the sides of the head buff 

 speckled with black; the ears brown. 

 The crown is pale buff streaked with 

 black. The back of the neck is chestnut. 

 The whole back and the visible portions 

 of the closed wings are dark brown, each 

 feather broadly edged with buff. The 

 rump and the middle tail-feathers are 

 dark brown mottled and cross-barred with 

 buff. The other tail-feathers are black 

 with narrow white bars at their bases. 

 The quills of the wing are brown barred 

 with rufous on both webs, as in the 

 male. The whole lower plumage from the 

 throat downwards is pale buff with coarse 

 irregular interrupted black bars on every 

 part. The feathers under the tail are 

 deep chestnut. 



The size of these birds varies very 

 much and the males are larger than the 

 females. Of males the length is about 

 14, the wing rather more than 6, the tail 

 about 3 1 or 4; legs red; irides brown; 

 bill brown to black. The weight varies 

 excessively, and Messrs. Hume and 

 Marshall give it as from 8 to 20 oz. 



