344 Manual of the Game Birds of India. 



The female has the general colour of 

 the upper plumage and wings reddish 

 brown, each feather edged paler and 

 minutely freckled with black. The throat 

 is ashy white. The whole lower plumage 

 is ashy brown, each feather edged with 

 greyish white, and with a conspicuous 

 greyish white shaft-streak. The two 

 middle tail-feathers are chestnut, mottled 

 and barred with black ; the next pair is 

 black, the inner web mottled with pale 

 chestnut, the outer web black mottled 

 with white and broadly edged with 

 chestnut; the other feathers are black, 

 mottled and barred with white, the white 

 progressively decreasing in amount, the 

 outermost feather being almost entirely 

 black. 



Length of male about 24 ; wing about 9 

 (evidently moulting in the present bird and 

 may be longer) ; tail about 10, 



The length of the female is about 2 1 ; 

 wing 8 ; tail 8. 



The bare skin of the face is crimson 

 and the legs brown or dark flesh-colour. 



