680 CACCABIS AMMOPERDIX 



narrow in the middle, rich chestnut-red spotted with white ; throat below 

 the collar bluish ash ; outer scapulars and some of the wing-coverts deep 

 bluish ash broadly margined with chestnut ; soft parts as in C. rufa. 

 Culmen 0'9, wing 6'1, tail 3'75, tarsus 1*85 inch. 



In habits it does not differ from C. rufa, and its eggs, 10 to 

 15 in number, are deposited in April and resemble those of 

 C. rufa, but are as a rule more richly marked with rufous. 



AMMOPERDIX, Gould, 1851. 



951. SEESEE PARTRIDGE. 

 AMMOPERDIX BONHAMI. 



Ammoperdix bonhami (Fraser), P.Z.S. 1843, p. 70 ; Gould, B. of A. vii. 

 pi. 1 ; Dresser, vii. p. 117, pi. 472 ; Ogilvie Grant, Cat. B. Br. Mus. 

 xxii. p. 123 ; Blanf. F. Brit. Ind. Birds, iv. p. 133 ; A. grlseogularU 

 (Brandt), Bull. Acad. St. Petersb. 1843, p. 278. 



Sisi, Hindu. 



$ ad. Crown ashy blue-grey, tinged with vinous behind ; forehead 

 and a line passing over and behind the eye black ; lores and ear-coverts 

 silky white, the latter rufous posteriorly ; upper parts pale isabelline grey, 

 indistinctly barred and freckled with darker grey and creamy brown ; 

 primaries dark brown, the outer web barred with buffy white ; middle 

 tail-feathers like the back, the rest chestnut-red, becoming greyish towards 

 the tip ; chin, sides of head, and throat blue-grey ; sides of neck ashy grey 

 spotted with white ; breast pale vinous ; flank-feathers vinous grey 

 margined with black and rich rufous, forming stripes ; abdomen greyish 

 white tinged with pale rufous ; under tail-coverts pale rufous ; bill 

 orange ; legs wax-yellow ; iris orange-brown. Culmen 62, wing 5'15, 

 tail 2'5, tarsus T25 inch. The female lacks the blue-grey, white and black 

 on the head, is generally browner and more variegated with rufous bufT ; 

 breast and flanks rufous buff narrowly barred with dark grey ; abdomen 

 and under tail-coverts buffy white. 



Hal. The Euphrates valley, south to Aden ; Transcaspia, 

 Persia, Afghanistan, Turkestan, Baluchistan, and all the ranges 

 of the Punjab and Sind, west of the Indus ; is said by Gould to 

 occur in Tibet. 



Affects bare stony and rocky localities in the hills, and is 

 never found in the woods or amongst bushes. Generally it is 

 found in pairs and only occasionally in winter in small coveys. 

 Its flight resembles that of the Quail, and when it rises it utters 

 a whistling note, but the ordinary note is a double one repeated 



