,54 CLASS AVES. 



Brown Partridge. Per. Fusca. Vieill. Gal. 212. 



Brown, varied with white lines and spots ; middle of 

 the chest, red ; belly, abdomen, and tail, blackish 

 brown. Inhabits Senegal. M. Riocourt. 



We insert 



Gorget Partridge. Lath. H.viii. 302. Perdicc Scutata. 

 Gray. 



Pale ash, black spotted ; forehead, pale ash ; chin, 

 rufous, white ; eye streak, black and white banded, 

 bordering the nape and crown; nape, and back of 

 neck, chestnut ; rest of neck, black, whitish streaked ; 

 lower part of neck and breast ferrugineous, divided by 

 a white cross line ; belly and vent, pale ash ; seconda- 

 ries, brown, rufous edged ; primaries, white, brownish 

 tipt ; tail, very short, brown and red ; under tail- 

 coverts, black, white tipt. India. Length, eleven 

 inches. 



Chukar Partridge. Perdios Chukar. Gray. 



Like Perdieo Textilis, but grey brown, with the 

 black band over the forehead, and passing through 

 the eyes and uniting on the neck ; a black spot on the 

 chin, and chocolate brown ears. Length, thirteen 

 inches. Mountain of Sinigur. Gen. Hardwicke. 



Olive Partridge. Lath. Perdix Olivacea. n. 



Ashy olive ; beneath, ashy ; head and neck, chestnut; 

 throat and neck, streak from the eye, white, black 

 spotted; wing-coverts and secondaries, varied with 

 chestnut and olive, spotted with black ; sides of vent, 



