114 CAUCASIAN SNOW PABTBIBGB. 



of colours apparently borrowed from the French. Red-legged Partridge, 

 but not so distinct, being dirty white with black transverse markings 

 across the feathers; the rest of the abdomen grey brown. The long 

 feathers of the flanks a lighter grey, broadly edged with the charac- 

 teristic brown above described. Under tail coverts white; tail feathers 

 rufous below, and the same colour above, but thickly spotted with 

 small black dots. Beak horn-colour; the strong thickly scaled tarsi 

 and toes reddish brown; the claws strong and obtuse. In my specimen, 

 which is a male, and obtained by Mr. Tristram from Circassia, there 

 is no vestige of a spur. 



The e§,^ is from a specimen in my own collection, which was sent 

 to me by Mr. Schliiter, of Halle. 



The bird has also been figured by Gould in his magnificent work, 

 the Birds of Asia. 



