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Brown African Partridge. Lath. Perdioe Spadi- 

 ceus. Sonn. ij. 169- 



Deep-bay ; crown and upper part of the neck, paler ; 

 orbits, naked ; tail, long, rounded. Female, spurless. 

 Madagascar. 



Ceylon Partridge. Lath. Perdix Zeilonicus. Lath. 

 Forster, Ind. Zool. t. 14 



Blackish ; nape and wing-coverts, with white arrow- 

 shaped spots ; beneath, blackish, brown and white 

 streaked ; tail, long, rounded, black ; orbits, red. 

 Female, spotless and spurless. The P. Bicalcaratus. 

 Forster. 



Sanguine Pheasant. Phasianus Cruentatus. Hard- 

 wicke. PI. Col. t. 332. 



With three or four spurs, and very bright colours, 

 quite diiFerent from the rest of the genus. 



Above, slate coloured, with yellow longitudinal streaks 

 on the shafts of the feather ; beneath, greenish yellow ; 

 chest, yellowish, irregularly red-spotted; face and 

 upper part of throat, orange, yellow-spotted ; crown 

 and nape, whitish ; tail-coverts, red-edged ; vent, car- 

 mine-red. Nepaul. Mus. Hardwicke. 



Perdix Gardneri. Gray. Phasianus Gardneri. 

 Hardw. Lin. Trans, xv. 166. 



Crested ; minutely speckled and waved with dusky 

 and brown ; tail, black-brown, white speckled ; face. 



