46 CLASS AVES. 



with a black lunule ; beneath, secondaries, reddish and 

 pale-brown streaked ; spurless. Found in India. 



Pearled Partridge. Lath. P. Perlatus. Briss. pi. 28. 

 A. f. 1. Viell. Gal. t. 313. The same as Mada- 

 gascariensis. Sonn. II. 166. pi. 97- 



Black-bay ; neck, wing-coverts, and under parts, 

 white spotted ; back, secondaries, and rump, black, with 

 narrow red bands ; side of the head, with two black 

 bands. Hen, lower part, banded ; spurless. The 

 Perd. Sinensis. Brisson, t. 28. f. 1. Tetrao Sinensis, 

 Osb., and the young male, Perdiw Afra. Lath. Found 

 in India and China. Length, ten inches. 



Some exotic species are very remarkable for 

 having double spurs. 



Ceylon Partridge. Lath. Tetrao Bicalcaratus. Lin. 

 PI. Enl. t. 137. 



Feathers of brown, white streaked ; crown, red ; eye- 

 brow, black and white; throat, white; chest and 

 beneath, chestnut-black and white streaked. Found 

 in Africa. The Perdix Adamsonii, Temm. 



ClappertorCs Partridge. Perdioa Clappertonii, Chil- 

 dren. Ruppel, Voy. t. 9. 



Differs a little from the former; above, chesnut-brown ; 

 scaled with fulvous ; beneath, whitish-fulvous, with 

 longitudinal brown spots ; forehead and chin spot 

 black; throat, streak over and behind the eye, white ; 

 ears, chestnut. Central Africa. Captain Clapperton. 



