PARTRIDGE. ?2j 



This bird inhabits Indiay and is there, by the lefs informed. Tap- Psacb. 



pofed to be the female of the Impeyan Pheafant, but falfely, as it 

 comes from a different part of the country. It is common in the 

 lower parts o^ Bengal, and in the province of C/&///>^(7»^. — Mr. 

 Middletm. I likewife find the fame among the drawings of Lady 

 Impey. It is a moft beautiful bird, and, if one might hazard a 

 fuppofition, may poffibly hereafter prove to be the female of the 

 Ceylon Partridge* j the true fize of which has not hitherto been 

 determined. 



Tetrao pedibus antice hirfutis, &c. Faun. Arag. p. 8i. N^j. pi. 7. f. z, 56. b, 



ARAGONIANP. 



OlZE bigger than the Common Partridge. Bill black: head Description, 



afh-colour : throat black: round the neck ferruginous : bread: 



rufous, croffed with a band of black : back variegated brown and 



ferruginous : belly, thighs, and quills, black; wing coverts fer- , 



ruginous j beneath them white : tail cuneiform, cinereous brown j 



the outer feathers tipped with white : vent white, fpotted with 



ferruginous : legs afh-coloured, hairy on the fore part, and fur- 



nifhed with a fpur behind. 



Tht female differs in having a grey breaft, and the band there- 

 on narrower than in the male. 



The above inhabits the neighbourhood o( Saragofa, in Arago- Plass> 

 nia, and makes a nefl on the ground, laying four or five teftaceous- 

 coloured eggs, fpotted with brown j and is known by the name of 

 Churra, 



• S>». vol. iv. p. 758, " 



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