228 WELCOME PARTRIDGE. 



downwards from the eye. The back and rump are reddish-brown, the 

 quills and tail-feathers wood-brown margined with reddish-brown, the 

 inner secondaries broadly margined internally with white. The mid- 

 dle of the breast bright chestnut, as are the upper hypochondrial fea- 

 thers, which are margined on their inner web toward the end with a 

 narrow black, and a broad white band, the intervening space on the 

 sides broadly banded with white, black, and brownish-red. 



Length to end of tail 11 inches'; bill along the ridge ||, along the 

 edge of lower mandible -^^ ', wing from flexure 5| ; tail 3| ; tarsus li\ ; 

 hind toe ^, its claw /^ ; middle toe ||, its claw /j. 



Adult Female. Plate CCCCXXIII. Fig. 2. 

 The Female, which is somewhat less, is similar to the male, but less 

 brightly coloured. The elongated feathers on the head are much 

 shorter, being about two inches long. The middle and hind part of 

 the back, the wings, and the tail, are very minutely and rather faintly 

 undulated with dusky. Otherwise the difference in the colouring is not 

 very remarkable. 



Length to end of tail 10 inches ; bill along the ridge ^^ ; wing from 

 flexure 5^ ; tail 3| ; tarsus li*^ ; hind toe /g, its claw /^ ; middle toe 

 H, its claw 1^0. 



WELCOME PARTRIDGE. 



Perdix neoxenvs. 



PLATE CCCCXXIII. Young, 



Nothing is known of this species further than that it was procured 

 in the course of Captain Beechey's voyage, on the north-west coast of 

 America. My drawing was taken from a specimen kindly lent to me 

 by the Council of the Zoological Society of London. 



Welcome Quail, Ortyx neoxenus, Vigor's Gardens and Menagerie of the Zool. 

 See. vol. ii. p. 311 



Young. Plate CCCCXXIII. Fig. 3. 



The form and proportions being nearly the same as those of the 



