ORDER GALLINvE. 49 



whitish ; head and chest, black-brown ; quills, ashy- 

 brown. Hen, spurless. Africa. Length, sixteen 

 inches. 



Some of them have a naked skin on the throat. 



Red-necked Partridge. Lath. Tetrao Rubricollis* 

 Enl. 180. 



According to Temminck this is the female of the 

 T. Nudicollis. 



And some unite the characters of the two preced- 

 ing groups. 



Naked-necked Partridge. Tetrao Nudicollis. 



Brown ; feathers, pale edged ; beneath, bay, white 

 streaked ; orbits and front of neck, naked, red ; spur, 

 one on each tarsus. Hen, spurless. T. Rubricollis, 

 Gmel. and Perdix Capensis, Lath. Found in 

 Africa. 



Add: 



CrancJCs Partridge. Perdix Cranchii. Leach. 

 Tuckey, Voy. app. 408. 



Cinereous-brown ; beneath, whitish, freckled with 

 dark-brown ; the spot on the belly, elongate, and in- 

 clining to ferrugineous ; throat, naked. 



May be a variety of the former. 



Some have only one spur on each foot, as 



Le Vaillanfs Francoliri. Perdix Le Vaillantii. 

 Valenc. 



Chestnut-brown, with a pale-yellow broad streak down 



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