48 CLASS AVES. 



ears, and throat, pale-chestnut ; crown and nape, lead 

 colour. Snowy mountains of India. General Hard- 

 wicke. 



M. Lesson has removed this bird to Lophophorus, 

 without having seen it. Mus. Hardw. and Lin. 

 Soc. 



Curria Partridge. Lath. Hist. Perdix Hardwickii. 

 Gray. 



Bright chesnut-brown ; head and neck, black, white 

 banded ; upper part of the back and wing-coverts, 

 with metallic green spots, including a small triangular 

 white spot; lores, rump, sides, thighs, and vent, with 

 black spots, crossed by a yellow band ; chest, yellow, 

 black banded ; quills and tail, metallic olive ; tarsi, 

 short, with two acute spurs. Female, dull olive ; 

 feathers, dark, edged at the tip ; chin and breast, yel- 

 lowish ; crown, black, chestnut streaked ; band over 

 the eye, chestnut; tarsi, spurred, two-thirds of the 

 lower end of the shafts of the down feathers, very 

 thick and rigid. Length, fourteen inches. 



Lunated Francolin. Perdix Lunulata. Valenc. 



Top of the head, black, white spotted ; back, red, 

 white spots edged with black ; beneath, reddish ; 

 front of neck, black streaked; each of the chest- 

 feathers, with a black crescent ; belly, black spotted ; 

 size of the partridge ; beak, slender ; tarsi, short, 

 thick, armed with two large spurs. Bengal. 



Cape Partridge. Lath. Perdiv Clamator. Temm. 

 Blackish-brown, with narrow white lines ; throat. 



