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Genus LIV. PARTRIDGE. 



*WITH FOUR TOES. 



N" 36. a. Chittygong P. N' 36,. c. Hudfonian Quail, 



36. b. Aragonian P. 



Pintado Partridge, Ge>i. Sj/i. iv, p. 761. N" 7. 7, 



Var. Ao 

 T ENGTH eleven inches, Irides brown : the head, nape, and piNTADO P. 

 halfway down the back of the neck, rufous j the feathers Description, 

 daflied down the fliafts with duflcy : fides of the head and chin 

 plain rufous : the lower part of the neck, all round the breaft, and 

 all beneath, brownifh black; each feather marked with three 

 fpots of white on each web : lower part of the back and rump 

 brown, crofled with numerous lines of white over the thighs ; and 

 the middle of the belly the fame, but the lines broader : wing co- 

 verts brownifh black, fpotted as the under parts ; but the fpots 

 arc rufous inftead of white : tail fhort, dufky blackifh brown ; the 

 two middle feathers crofled with pale rufous lines near the bafe : 

 legs red. 



I met with a fpeclmen, anfwering to the above defcription, at Place» 



Sir Jo/eph Banks's, who informed me, that he received it from 

 Bombay. It appears a variety or fexual difference of the Pintado 

 Partridge. 



F f 2 Guernfey 



