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vermiculations. Base of the neck behind and back very pale 

 grey, witb a faint pinkish tinge very finely vermiculated with 

 blackish brown ; most of the feathers of the upper back tinged 

 towards their margins with a dingy fulvous shade, and those 

 of the lower back distinctly margined with pale buff; the 

 rump and upper tail-coverts are very similar to the upper 

 back, except that they are pervaded with a rich vinaceous 

 tinge ; central tail-feathers of a nearly uniform dull vinaceous 

 pink, closely and strongly vermiculated with blackish brown ; 

 lateral tail-feathers dull greyish black, tipped with pale 

 vinaceous rufous, and more or less variegated with the same 

 colour on the outer webs towards the bases ; the lesser v\ ing- 

 •coverts resemble the upper back. The scapulars, tertiaries, and 

 the coverts adjoining the scapulars are also very similar to the 

 upper back, but the ground colour is more buffy, the vermicu- 

 lations more strongly marked, and the feathers are broadly 

 margiued with a somewhat rufous buff; the primaries are pure 

 French grey, the earlier ones narrowly, the later more broadly 

 tipped with white, and more or less finely powdered Avith the 

 same colour on the margins of the outer webs ; the second- 

 aries are somewhat similar, but much more broadly tipped 

 with white, and have the whole of the outer portions of the 

 outer webs above the tips coarsely speckled and spotted with 

 buffy white ; the winglet is a slaty grey, the feathers more 

 or less finely powdered, and some of them margined towards 

 the tips with yellowish white. 



The female has only a central stripe down the throat white, 

 and has the whole cheeks, sides, and front of the neck and 

 breast, as far down as the grey band extends in the male, finely 

 mottled, vermiculated and variegated brown and rufous buff, 

 the brown being much darker on the sides of the neck and in 

 front at its base, and becoming greyer towards where this 

 cross patch ends. — Hume, " Lahore to Yarkand," and (i Game 

 Birds of India." 



823 Us.— Perdix hodgsoniae, Hodgs. 



" To General Jung Bahadoor, Prime Minister of Nepal, I am 

 indebted for the gift of a fine sample of what appears to me 

 decidedly a new species, and probably also a new type of the 

 Partridge group of birds. The General, in his recent military 

 expedition into Tibet, procured the bird alive, but it died at 

 Kathmandu, and he sent me the spoils in very fine con- 

 dition. 



