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DESCRIPTION. 
PLACE, 
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CROWNED 
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Pf RT RF D-. GES 
Tetrao Ceylonenfis, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 644. 3. 
Ceylon Partridge, Gen. Syn. iv. p. 758. 
N the only defcription extant of this bird, the fize is not mentioned; 
but having feen drawings of the female, both in Lady Jmpey’s draw- 
ings, and thofe of Mr. Middleton, it appears to be at leaft as big as a 
Fowl. 
Perdix afiatica, Ind. Orx. ii. p. 649. 20. 
HIS is fix inches in length: the bill fhort, obtufe, brown; the 
lower mandible pale: head and throat yellow brown: the upper 
parts of the body varied with rufous yellow and brown, here and there 
mixed with black: beneath whitifh, each feather marked with two 
black bands: towards the vent, the colours are lefs diftinét: quills 
rufous yellow, variegated with brown: legs reddifh, furnifhed with a 
blunt fpur at the back part, about the middle. 
Inhabits Judia; common in the Mabraita country. 
=* Wirn Lees DESTITUTE OF & SPUR. 
Mate. 
Columba criftatay Ind. Orn. ii. p. 596. 10. 
Phafianus criftatus, Muf: Carlf. fafe. iii. t. 64. 
Uncommon Bird from Malacca, Phil. Tranf: \xii. ps 1. te Le 
“Le Roloul de Malacca, Son. Voy. Ind. ii. p. 174. te 100: 
Violaceous Partridge, Nar. Mic. vol. iti. pl. 34. 
Leffer crowned Pigeon, Gen. Syx. iv. p. 622. 10. 
FEMALE. 
'Fetrao viridis, Jad. Orn. li. p. 650. 22. 
Green Partridge, Ger. Syz, iv. p. 777. 21. ts 67. 
BOTH the above birds have been before defcribed in the refpec- 
tive places above referred to, as birds not only different in fpecies, 
but of a different genus, Later obfervations however have proved 
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