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GINGI PARTRIDGE. 
Jascia pcctorali alba et castanea. (Femina corpore supra fus^ 
cescente^ subtus rujesceyite-ulbo, nigro-maculato ; pectore cinereOf 
nigro-striato.) 
Partridge with the body above grey-brown, beneath white ; the 
sides cinereous, variegated with chesnut spots ; the crown 
chesnut ; the eyebrows white ; breast with a white and 
chesnut fascia. {Female with the body above brownish, be- 
neath reddish white, spotted with black j the breast cinereous, 
striated with black.) 
Perdix gingica. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 648. ly.—Temm. Gall. Ind. 
p. 733. 
Tetrao gingicus. Gmel. Spst. Nat. 1. / 60. 41- 
La Perdrix de Gingi. Sonner. Voy. Ind. 2. 167. 
Perdrix ^ double hausse-col. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 3. p. 410. 
Gingi Partridge. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. p. 773* I6. • 
This, which is the smallest of the genus, was 
discovered by Sonnerat, who, as is usual with him, 
has not given any account of its manners, of which 
we are still ignorant : the beak of the male is 
black : the irides yellow : top of the head deep 
brown : from the beak, passing over the eye to 
the occiput, is a white stripe, each feather having 
a black line upon it : the throat, neck, and cheeks, 
are pale rufous, each feather of the two latter 
with a longitudinal black streak : back dirty rufous 
grey: lesser wing-coverts chesnut, fringed with 
dull red-grey, with a spot of the same near the 
tip ; the middle ones chesnut, edged with dirty 
yellow ; each with a round black spot at their tip : 
greater quills dusky brown ; secondaries similar to 
the middle coverts : on the breast are two spots, 
one of black and one of chesnut, separated from 
each other by a white patch ; belly white, with two 
